Site Reliability Engineer - Cost Optimization

Gannett is a leading media and marketing company with unparalleled local-to-national reach, successfully connecting consumers, communities and businesses. With the iconic USA TODAY, 109 strong local media organizations in 34 states and Guam, more than 150 local news brands online in the U.K., and ReachLocal, a digital marketing company, we provide rich content through hundreds of outstanding affiliated digital, mobile and print products.

Come join Gannett, a top global digital media and Fortune 500 company that reaches more than 100 million people monthly through a powerful network of broadcast, mobile & publishing properties. Gannett Digital leads development and innovation around digital products across the company – our goal is to re-imagine our traditional media roots by creating innovative products and services that leverage our role as an information provider and reach our customers whenever and wherever they need us. Explore the possibilities at Gannett as a Site Reliability Engineer, PaaS - Optimization. Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at Gannett fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our multi cloud environments are monitored, performance tuned, automated, and designed to scale. The ideal candidate will be passionate about an operations role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product. He/she will also believe that automation is a key component to operating large-scale systems.

* Infrastructure Automation using Chef * Multi Cloud API integration with Scalr * Work in a world where code is configuration * Analyze Cost of applications across multiple clouds / Work with Dev teams to right size applications based on those analyses. * Compare costs across all Clouds, this includes both public and private clouds. * Manage AWS Reserve Instance program / Work with finance team for best optimization. * On-boarding new technologies * Platform SLA monitoring and enforcement **Responsibility Breakdown:** * 20% - Chef Development * 20% - Scalr integration * 10% - New Technology Evaluation * 40% - Cost Optimization * 10% - Documentation

**Technologies and Disciplines Systems:** * Cost Optimization with Cloudyn, CloudHealthTech, Trusted Advisor * Linux (CentOS/RHEL) and Windows Server * Nginx and uWSGI, plus Node.js and IIS * Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack * Jenkins and Team City build servers * Automation using Python and Bash, plus extensive use of Chef * Monitoring with Splunk, AppDynamics and DataDog * Experience using a cloud management platform such as Scalr, Rightscale or CliQr **Minimum Qualifications:** * 4+ years experience in Linux systems administration * Experience deploying to AWS or other clouds * Experience with auto-scaling and the architecture of stateless applications * Experience with Chef or other configuration management tools