U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping citizens, consumers, business leaders and policy officials make important decisions in their lives. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for nearly 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News and 360 Reviews.
We reach more than 40 million people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our “Best” series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. And our U.S. News Live flagship conferences highlight important national conversations including Healthcare of Tomorrow and Healthiest Communities.
We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest. Learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
U.S. News & World Report is looking for a full-time Sr. DevOps Engineer to modernize, secure and administer our cloud infrastructure to help deliver dynamic, data-driven products for one of the globe’s most trusted brands.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will develop a complete understanding of our web application platforms and play a key role in modernizing our stack. You will be part of a team responsible for all of the organization’s code and production deployment pipelines, infrastructure, security, network and development environments.
We have a diverse environment, mostly Linux and macOS with some Windows. The majority of our development effort involves building & maintaining web applications on Python, Node & Java. The DevOps team works almost exclusively within cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in conjunction with other software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms.
Our applications support just about every aspect of company operations, including content management for the usnews.com website, data ranking products such as Best Colleges/Grad schools and Best Hospitals, and other business applications.
We offer a casual, flexible, hybrid-remote work environment. Our offices in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Are you up to the challenge?
- Assisting with all cloud resources needed by the company including their security, compliance, monitoring, utilization and performance
- Improve site performance at the origin & CDN level
- Respond to production issues 24x7 on call rotation
- Control expenditures of technologies used
- Support the development lifecycle and deployment of multiple technology teams in the company
- Transform Deliverables into actionable items for the devops team and prioritize them
- Work on reliability, security, cost optimizations or performance improvements for our infrastructure through terraform, cloudformation, or configuration of different SAAS tools yet to be onboarded to infrastructure as code
- Actively help developers with architecture design, development issues or issues in their production environment or pipelines
You should definitely have:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or Masters preferred
- Minimum of 8 years working in a development, operations, or similar support role inclusive of:
- At least 3 years leading a team of DevOps engineers
- At least 4 years of experience working with Linux based systems (e.g. Debian, CentOS, RHEL)
- At least 3 years maintaining public cloud production-ready workloads (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- At least 3 years of experience working with a programming language (Python, Java, Javascript/Node.js, Ruby)
It would be nice if you had:
- Cloud Professional certification (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Security experience
- Infrastructure as code (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform)
- CI and orchestration systems (e.g. Jenkins)
- Containerization & Orchestration experience (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Configuration Management Experience (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Docker)
- Architecture patterns of public global web-based applications and underlying technologies
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Agile methodology experience
What it’s like to work with us:
Talent is our best asset!
We invest in people with passion and potential who understand U.S. News’ dedication to our consumers.
- Entrepreneurial, mission-driven culture with core values of quality and integrity
- Focus on fostering personal and professional growth
- Competitive benefits including paid vacation time, medical, tuition reimbursement, and training
- Collaborative Work Environment : Fun, diverse, inclusive and ambitious co-workers
Other Job Information
- These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this job.
- ?U.S. News & World Report strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated (including boosters).
- Preference for New York or Washington, DC based applicants to work a hybrid schedule in those office locations.
- The base salary for this position is $100,000 to $165,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, interview performance, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
