at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
A little about us:
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world's best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.
The Production Engineering (PE/SRE/DevOps) team is the power behind engineering goodness for all above. By writing, designing and implementing software and infrastructure to drive velocity, operability, reliability and performance, the PE team ensures continuous quality and compliance on production systems. We also build and maintain tools and platforms for engineer productivity and are at the forefront of tech initiatives of infrastructure modernization with cloud platforms and experimenting with new technologies.
Yes, we are DevOps! We are all about:
Enabling a culture of ownership and excellence.
Engineering processes that are Automated and Agile.
Developing tools that are Self-Serve and (Re)Usable.
Our goal is to:
Efficiently bring products to market.
Proactively prevent defects from reaching customers.
Swiftly address and resolve any production issues."
If you believe in the above, come join us.
A Lot About You
The Yahoo News Production Engineering team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in AWS and a strong knowledge of Web applications. If you are passionate about working in a dynamic environment and have the required skills, we would love to have you on board with us. Apply now to join our team!
We are looking for DevOps, Production Engineers (SRE's) who are problem solvers at heart, with solid ability to dig into code and own the reliability domain. As a member of the PE team, you will work with your developer partners and implement operability improvements, security, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring and other system requirements. You will also work in development of tools, automation platforms and intelligent monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Manage large scale distributed systems by analyzing the existing processes and systems to identify areas of improvement.
- Collaborate with the engineering team on the product roadmap and provide support in terms of capacity planning and scaling, operability review, monitoring and alerting, process optimization, security and compliance.
- Work on challenging system and network problems to improve system performance and reliability
- Implement and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, trends and insights
- Participate in oncall rotation, identify...
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