Engineer

The mission ( of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

About the role:

The Infrastructure Engineer Intern will be part of the infrastructure engineering & operations team that designs, engineers, implements, and maintains The New York Times Global Terrestrial and Cloud Infrastructure. You will bring expertise to improve the NYT IT infrastructure design, to engineer new solutions that address evolving needs and provide a secure and available computing platform. Also, you will configure and maintain existing infrastructure components, implement upgrades, use management tools to monitor & report on the reliability of the environment.

Responsibilities:

• Independently research and provide both business and technical solutions based on and related to customer needs and specifications and deploy them into our production infrastructure.

• Monitor, test and analyze the existing infrastructure environment and optimize it based on resiliency, technological advancements and cost

• Design and implement automation platforms

• Evaluate new technologies and create alpha/beta releases, and determine viability and suitability of existing technologies

• Produce documentation of use cases, business and technical solutions, and overall technology concepts-and write reference architecture papers to explain how products can be used to solve specific challenges

• Present to and solicit feedback from application, development and operations teams

• Collaborate with stakeholders about adopting new technology, solution improvements, and updates to existing technology

• Be part of an on-call rotation to monitor, analyze and resolve critical infrastructure issues and incidents, including on an emergency basis

Basic qualifications:

• Experience coding/scripting in Python or PowerShell

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional experience in IT

• Experience of Linux and Windows Operating Systems

• Understanding of Active Directory topologies and how sites interconnect

• Understanding of Cloud based deployments on AWS and GCP Cloud Platforms

• Understanding of Identity federation, MFA, SAML and SSO

• Understanding of Syslog, DNS, Monitoring Services

• Understanding of Automation (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack) and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Racher, etc)

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The hourly rate of base pay for this role is:

$20 - $20 USD

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