TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.
Job DescriptionPOSITION OVERVIEW
TED creates, produces and distributes audio and video media (most famously TED Talks) to millions of people around the world. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring TED’s technology team has the tools and processes in place to maximize developer productivity and reduce friction. You will help developers deploy and monitor software products, as well as configure and manage shared infrastructure-level products. You will develop and implement state-of-the-art CI/CD systems. You will work directly with software engineers on the Technology team, technical points of contact throughout the company and key vendors.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure 24x7x365 service availability for deployed applications, including periodic on-call responsibilities
Ensure newly-developed systems are designed to meet performance, security, and availability requirements
Define company direction for production software deployments
Work with software developers to maintain build system and toolchain
Be the subject matter expert for infrastructure-level technologies (e.g. DNS, CDN, Linux, MySQL, AWS, Docker)
Help technical points of contact across the company integrate 3rd party or agency-developed applications
Experiment with new technologies and share discoveries with the team
Foster growth and support other engineers through constructive, collaborative code reviews
Clearly communicate technical constraints and opportunities with stakeholders
Willingness to contribute however possible to ensure overall effectiveness of position
Other duties and special projects as may be assigned from time to time
Travel: Upon request / as needed
6+ years of professional experience in DevOps and/or software engineering
Oriented towards service and responsiveness to incidents and blockers as they arise
At least 3 years experience with core AWS services (Unix, EC2, S3, RDS)
High proficiency working in remote shell-based environments
At least 3 years of experience with cloud database administration and maintenance (MySQL)
Experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline construction and management
Experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js environments preferred
Experience installing and maintaining Linux physical machines, virtual machines, and Docker images (Ubuntu, CentOS, and/or Alpine)
Production experience with one or more container orchestration systems (Docker Swarm, ECS, Kubernetes)
Experience developing, maintaining and executing runbook procedures to ensure process consistency
Familiarity with using a CDN to enhance website performance and reduce costs
An insatiable curiosity for technology, software, and quality
Must be a self-starter who will stop at nothing to clear blockers and ship products
Must hold yourself to the highest standards for precision work, including the use of retrospectives and blameless postmortems to facilitate continuous improvement
Must be a ferocious debugger who is unfazed by complex systems mixes of SaaS and in-house software, and emerging technologies
Values cross-functional collaboration
Values a diverse workplace
SALARY: 155,000.00 - 169,600.00
BENEFITS
Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision) 100% paid by TED for employees
Paid family leave
Work-life balance encouraged (TED offers a flexible, unlimited PTO policy and 1-week winter break plus you're eligible for additional paid time off)
Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being
401k with match
TED Conferences LLC is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We invite all qualified candidates to apply online with their resume and cover letter.
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What We Do
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long.
In fact, everything we do — from our TED Talks videos to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from the global TEDx community to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?
