PCH Digital is seeking a dynamic and results-oriented DevOps Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a passion for automation and orchestration. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a fast-scaling environment while enhancing your technical and professional growth.
As a key member of the DevOps team, you will collaborate with software engineers to deploy, manage, and optimize infrastructure and application environments. You will automate workflows, streamline processes, and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure provisioning on AWS. Responsibilities include building out the full tech stack—from ELBs to databases—and supporting continuous delivery using “Blue/Green” deployment strategies.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Strong background in DevOps automation and orchestration tools.
- Hands-on expertise in deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and provisioning infrastructure.
- Ability to manage and scale production environments in a collaborative, fast-paced setting.
- Self-motivated, analytical, and able to thrive both independently and within high-performing teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement Ansible automation to streamline system provisioning, scaling, and code testing.
- Deliver Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using modern tools and best practices.
- Manage release cycles with a deep understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Perform routine systems administration tasks including user management, provisioning, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
- Leverage a variety of open-source tools and cloud services, with a strong emphasis on AWS technologies.
- Administer Linux-based systems, preferably Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu.
- Respond to critical outages and coordinate resolutions across distributed engineering teams.
- Collaborate with developers to optimize deployment and release strategies.
- Support and maintain high-volume, high-traffic web applications and infrastructure.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and be flexible with work hours as operational needs require.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- 3-5 years of relevant DevOps or systems engineering experience.
- Proficient in Linux/UNIX administration including SSH, cron, and access control.
- Experience with managed hosting environments and collocated data centers.
- Expertise in AWS infrastructure: VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Security Groups, and API integration.
- Familiar with alerting platforms such as PagerDuty or OpsGenie.
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Ruby, Python, and PHP.
- Solid grasp of networking fundamentals including DNS, SSL, firewalls, load balancing, and CDN services.
- Deep knowledge of Ansible for configuration management and YAML-based playbooks.
- Experience with CI/CD tools for automated build and deployment processes.
- Proficient with cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Advanced database skills, including SQL and MySQL; NoSQL experience (e.g., Couchbase, Redis) is a plus.
- Familiarity with scalable web infrastructure using Apache, NGINX, PHP, and PHP-FPM.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Nagios, SolarWinds, AlertSite, New Relic, Sumo Logic, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for resolving infrastructure and application issues.
- Reliable team player who can also work independently with minimal supervision.
- Excellent communication skills-both written and verbal.
- Passionate about learning new tools, technologies, and practices in a fast-evolving environment.
Publishers Clearing House is now under new ownership! As of July 15, 2025, select assets of Publishers Clearing House LLC were acquired by PCH Digital, LLC, a newly formed company owned by ARB Interactive, Inc.
PCH continues to be a leading direct-to-consumer entertainment company, delivering a distinctive mix of free-to-play, chance-to-win digital experiences across a growing network of web and mobile properties.
Famous for its iconic Prize Patrol—the team that surprises winners at their doorsteps with oversized checks while the cameras roll—PCH has become a beloved American institution. These unforgettable moments have captivated audiences nationwide and inspired countless lighthearted tributes and parodies on television.
Diversity Commitment: PCH Digital is focused on building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is a leading multiplatform entertainment and commerce publisher with a growing portfolio focused on first party data and identity solutions for advertisers. We are one of the few premium publishers with accurate first party data based on identity from a fully authenticated audience of over 20 million consumers. Our loyal audience of highly engaged consumers has been driving performance outcomes for our advertising partners for over 65 years.
Why Work With Us
PCH is on a mission to simultaneously preserve our legacy brand and build a portfolio of synergistic digital businesses with content designed to engage a broader demographic. With our existing assets combined with our treasure trove of data, PCH is on track to become a true media powerhouse.
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