Lead DevOps Engineer

Bleacher Report, a division of Turner Sports, is the leading digital destination for team-specific sports content and real-time event coverage, and is one of the fastest-growing digital properties in the U.S. Bleacher Report's editorial and video teams, led by a growing roster of lead writers and premier contributors, create hundreds of pieces of content per day to provide fans with the most comprehensive experience for their favorite teams and topics across all major sports.

Bleacher Report, 2nd largest sports website and home of the most minutes/users among sports apps in the U.S. (comScore), is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer. We’re looking for someone who can both develop code as well as manage servers. This person should think of infrastructure as code. We have a small team and looking to add an experienced individual who can also step into the role of mentoring.

• You will write software to help automate and manage the server clusters
• You will build servers in a programmable fashion
• You will have daily usage of Amazon Web Services: CloudFormation, EC2, Route53, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk
• You will set up fault tolerant servers and geographical redundancy
• You will work closely with the Development and QA teams on architecture and technologies
• You will create archival, backup and recovery processes
• You will write scripts in bash, Golang or any other language to manage and monitor different levels of the server stack: process monitoring, memory monitoring, disk usage, uptime monitoring.

• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years experience with Linux OS: Gentoo/Ubuntu/Debian
• 6+ years supporting public or private cloud technology
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills for the Linux platforms
• Must have minimum 2+ years of experience working with AWS
• Have the attitude that it's in your nature to solve problems with code vs. by hand
• Security experience and hands-on knowledge for hardening systems
• Strong Unix skills and the ability to script in bash, Golang or other code base is desirable