About The National Hockey League
Founded in 1917, the National Hockey League (NHL®) is the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
With more than 1500 employees across the US and Canada, the NHL is a global sports and entertainment organization committed to building healthy and vibrant communities using the sport of hockey to celebrate fans of every race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.
At the NHL, we are looking for dynamic, energetic and impactful individuals who are committed to doing the same by sharing in our philosophy that Hockey is for Everyone – and inclusion belongs on the ice, in the locker rooms, boardrooms and stands.
Summary
WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
The role of DevOps Engineer is to modernize the infrastructure and software delivery pipelines, empowering organizational engineers to run the software they create, and enabling Operations to ensure proactive reduction in production service issues both internal and externally facing, with a focus on Linux based infrastructure and Database technologies.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Administer and support both on-prem and cloud-based environments
- Execute code-based CI/CD deployment plans for new and existing infrastructure based on standards and best-practices provided
- Ensure ease of automation and scalability in all Git-based deployments
- Ensure replication, load-balancing, obfuscation, and back-up/restore operations are performing as expected
- Troubleshoot and provide feedback on complex issues on all levels of the stack
- Manage MySQL databases servicing both internal and externally facing applications
- Develop repeatable deployment, back-up and replication processes
- Monitor database health with ability to independently troubleshoot configuration and performance issues
- Develop disaster high availability and disaster recovery procedures
- Manage users and permissions with goal of providing necessary access while operating under best-practices (e.g., granting least privilege)
- Coordinate patching, upgrade and maintenance schedules
- Initiate and coordinate data obfuscation when dealing with PII
- Work with external vendors and league partners to ensure all deliverables are being met
- Develop monitoring solutions that give greater visibility into performance and reliability of cloud and on-prem environments
- Communicate regularly with NetworkOps and InfoSec groups and integrate their requirements in all environments build plans
- Contribute to overall DevOps team objectives and enthusiastically assist other members when needed
- Curiosity and willingness to bring new ideas and improvements to the team to help drive the infrastructure vision
Qualifications
Knowledge Areas/Experience
Required
- 5+ years of experience
- 3+ years of DevOps experience
- Strong background in virtual and cloud infrastructure platforms, such as VMWare and AWS
- Experience with configuration and content tools such as Ansible and Puppet
- Background in infrastructure and application logging/monitoring with tools such as Devo, Datadog, CheckMK and Prometheus/Grafana
- Previous experience creating monitoring checks and alerting mechanisms for internal and external/public resources
- CDN experience (CloudFlare, Akamai, etc.)
Preferred
- Strong knowledge of least-privilege practices for database access/user management
- Strong understanding of Database back-up and replication strategies
- Ability to implement database-specific performance monitoring
- Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm background a plus
- Terraform experience
- MySQL/RDB management
Required Skills
- Understanding of infrastructure deployment and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and others
- Understanding of deployment and scaling tools such as Gitlab, Bamboo, Jfrog and Jenkins
- Familiarity with AWS products such as SSM, Control Tower and GuardDuty
- Ability to contribute and thrive in a team environment
- Python
- Linux Administration and Engineering
- Basic network/firewall troubleshooting
- AWS: EKS, Serverless, stand-alone compute resources, VPC, etc.
CORE COMPETENCIES
These core competencies reflect the underlying values that are necessary to represent the National Hockey League:
- Accountability
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Inclusion
- Professionalism
- Teamwork & Collaboration
The NHL offers U.S. regular, full-time employees:
Time to Recharge: Utilize our generous Paid Time Off (PTO) to focus on your well-being and ensure a healthy work/life balance. PTO includes paid holidays, vacation, personal and sick days, plus an extra day off for your birthday.
Ability to Focus on your Health: Along with competitive salaries, the NHL offers comprehensive health benefits to employees and their eligible dependents effective on their first day with us – there is no waiting period. The NHL subsidizes a large portion of the health benefits costs, therefore your cost for medical, dental and vision coverage is minimal.
We also offer our employees and members of their household access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support mental, physical, and financial health. In addition, employees have access to a digital wellness resource designed to improve health and happiness through courses in sleep, movement, and focus. These services are confidential and at no-cost to our employees.
Childcare Leave: Because your family is the NHL family, employees are offered comprehensive Childcare Leave to welcome your new addition. The primary caregiver to the child is entitled to up to 12 weeks of paid Childcare Leave, at full pay, following the birth, adoption, or placement of a child.
Employees that are not the primary caregiver to the child are entitled to up to 6 weeks of paid Childcare Leave, at full pay, which must be taken within the first 6 months following the birth, adoption, or placement of a child.
Confidence in your Retirement Goals: Participate in the NHL’s Savings Plan which includes a 401K (pre-tax and Roth options) plus non-elective (employer) contributions to keep your retirement goals on track.
A Hybrid Work Schedule: The NHL recognizes the value of flexibility in work locations/schedules to help our employees balance work/life priorities. Hybrid work schedules are available for a majority of our roles.
Our New Headquarters: Our new, state of the art, offices are located at One Manhattan West in Hudson Yards. When you’re in the office, you can conduct meetings in one of our high-tech conference rooms, have lunch with a view or play in the game room. Employees can also enjoy New York’s newest neighborhood that is home to more than 100 shops, culinary experiences, and public artwork.
A Savings for Commuting: Participate in the NHL’s pre-tax commuter benefit plan which helps offset the financial cost of traveling to and from our office.
NHL Partner Rates: Unlock exclusive pricing from our Partners that include savings on travel, consumer goods and services, plus the NHL Store.
Life at the NHL: In your first few days, you meet with your new teammates and the HR Team. You have the opportunity to learn more about the NHL and our workplace culture. Employees are invited to play hockey during our Tuesday Night Skate at Chelsea Piers, join our Employee Resource Groups and more. You are a part of our team and we encourage you to be your authentic self, adding to our dynamic workplace culture.
SALARY RANGE:
$140-175K
Actual base pay for a successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to: experience/training, market demands, and geographic location.
When applying, please be sure to include a cover letter with your salary expectations for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity, however only qualified candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. NO EMAILS OR PHONE CALLS PLEASE.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
