Senior Platform Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

CNBC Digital is looking for an experienced editor to work with the Senior Editor helping to manage the technology-news team. The ideal candidate will know the industry inside and out, from Apple to AI to VCs. Some understanding of how media and entertainment are playing a role with the big tech companies would be useful. The ideal candidate will know how to direct coverage of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and other mega-cap tech companies. They will help reporters develop sources and understand the stories they should be covering. They may also get to do some original reporting or write smart analysis themselves. It is critical they are knowledgeable about markets and can work collaboratively with our TV network. They will have roughly five or more years of experience in daily news, with a proven track record of breaking news, writing, or editing long-form features and delivering high-quality, high-impact journalism. Should also be comfortable managing live blogs on a story that merits.

Duties include:

• Editing breaking news in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Writing headlines with an eye toward SEO
• Experience editing fast-moving breaking news
• A clear understanding of style and grammar
• Helping writers frame stories for a national audience
• Mentor, coach, and empower both junior and experienced reporters

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of experience in the field of Software Engineering which operating web applications in a Site Reliability Engineering, Web Operations, or Cloud Engineering capacity.
• Production experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM.
• A strong foundation in modern infrastructure practices and the ability to deploy and operate maintainable, scalable and secure infrastructure.
• Ability to write quality, documented, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable infrastructure automation.
• A team-oriented attitude and seemingly endless intellectual curiosity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• AWS Experience
  • Experience in the following areas of AWS:
    • EC2/ECS/EKS
    • VPC – Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, ELB/ALB/NLB etc.
    • IAM, S3, Managed data tiers - RDS/Elasticache etc.
• • Nice to have
    • Experience in production with AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB etc.
• Kubernetes
  • Production experience of running services in Kubernetes
  • Ability to take a VM based application and migrate to Kubernetes
• CI/CD
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, assisting developers in delivering changes on a daily cadence
  • Experience with TravisCI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Github Actions or similar technologies
• Automation
  • Ability to script automation in one of either Ruby, Python, Go, Powershell etc.
• Infrastructure as Code
  • Terraform
    • Ability to author Terraform at a proficient level
    • Ability to break out reusable, opinionated and standardized actions into Terraform modules
• • Chef/Ansible

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.