Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

Senior Platform Engineer (Remote)
Overview

Audacy is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, and passionate Platform Engineer. You will be working with a team of like-minded engineers to design, develop and implement cutting-edge consumer desktop, web, and mobile applications. We are building an infrastructure platform, and the Platform Engineering team is responsible for designing and writing Infrastructure-as-Code and nurturing a DevOps culture by providing tools and training for development teams. This role will be key in building cloud-based, fault tolerant, highly available, high performing applications that provide a seamless experience to our development teams and our end users.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:
• Identify and implement automation strategies in the SDLC process that enables high quality and fast delivery of new solutions to our business users.
• Participate in vendor software evaluations and integration strategies.
• Champion our CI/CD agile practices across all of the development teams.
• Create and maintain functional / technical design specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements.
• Develop infrastructure as code to meet the needs of our platforms.
• Provide 24/7 on-call rotational support of applications and infrastructure to users including issue resolution.
• Monitor system and application performance and troubleshoot/ resolve escalated issues.
• Be part of a high-performing Agile / Continuous Integration engineering practice.
• Continually seek ways to optimize and improve all operational aspects of our technical solutions.

Qualifications

More About You: Qualifications:
• Preferred 5+ years of experience in software engineering, design, implementation and support
• Deep automation experience – build, test, deployment automation, post release surveillance and monitoring.
• Must have hands-on experience with AWS services: EC2, EKS, RDS, OpenSearch, CloudFront, Route53, S3, etc.
• Must have hands-on experience with AWS security and networking: VPCs, Security Groups, IAM, role management, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, etc.
• Must have hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production
• Must have hands-on experience with a CI/CD system – Gitlab, Jenkins, Github Actions, Bitbucket pipelines, etc.
• Must have experience writing Infrastructure as Code in Terraform
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions like Datadog, ELK, or Splunk
• Experience in high-level languages: Python, Javascript, VCL, bash, etc.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving application performance, connectivity, and security issues
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of engineering cloud based solutions that are fault tolerant and highly performant, in support of business critical applications

About Us

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD; OTC: AUDA) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country's best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp), X (@AudacyCorp), LinkedIn (@Audacy-Inc), Instagram (@lifeataudacy) and Threads (@Audacy_Corp).

Responsibilities:

What You'll Do:
- Identify and implement automation strategies in the SDLC process that enables high quality and fast delivery of new solutions to our business users.
- Participate in vendor software evaluations and integration strategies.
- Champion our CI/CD agile practices across all of the development teams.
- Create and maintain functional / technical design specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements.
- Develop infrastructure as code to meet the needs of our platforms.
- Provide 24/7 on-call rotational support of applications and infrastructure to users including issue resolution.
- Monitor system and application performance and troubleshoot/ resolve escalated issues.
- Be part of a high-performing Agile / Continuous Integration engineering practice.
- Continually seek ways to optimize and improve all operational aspects of our technical solutions.

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