Platform Engineer

This is a Full Time Job

Overview:

Audacy is looking for a self-starting and results-oriented Senior Platform Engineer with a pragmatic and intelligent approach to problem solving. You will join a team of like-minded engineers to design, develop and support consumer desktop, web, and mobile applications. In addition to the current streaming platform, the Platform Engineering team is currently building architecture to support AI, LLM’s targeting spoken word podcasts and broadcast data that can be leveraged by AI platforms like Vertex AI, Gemini, Notebook LM, as well as AI Code Assist to help on the IaC deployments, etc. Evangelizing a “DevOps” culture by enabling and empowering developer teams to be as self-sufficient as possible is key to being successful.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

Key Responsibilities:
• Deploy infrastructure to AWS & GCP using Terraform & Terragrunt.
• Support hundreds of deployments over 10 EKS clusters and 2 GKE clusters.
• Provide expert level support to an EC2-based HLS streaming platform for broadcast radio.
• Enable developer teams to automate their release pipelines using GitLab and empowering them to own the deployment lifecycle.
• Contribute to project planning and influence solution architecture design that satisfies business goals while maintaining Platform Engineering standards.
• Deliver 24/7 on-call rotational support of applications and infrastructure.
• Monitor system and application performance and troubleshoot/resolve escalated issues.
• Cross functional collaboration in the care and feeding of existing Kubernetes architecture like controller, cluster, and add-on upgrades.
• Continually identify opportunities to optimize and improve all operational aspects of our technical solutions.

Qualifications

More About You:

Required Skills
• At least 3 years of experience in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role.
• Proficient experience around pipeline automation with GitLab and automation with Helm like pre-deploy hooks will be helpful.
• Practical experience with most core AWS services: EC2, EKS, FluxCD (or ArgoCD) RDS, OpenSearch, CloudFront, WAF, Route53, S3, Load Balancing, etc.
• Exposure to multiple cloud accounts that leverage VPC peering and Transit Gateway for systems that span cross-account.
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes in a production setting.
• Demonstrated experience with GitLab, Bitbucket, or GitHub automation.
• Experience writing infrastructure as code in Terraform and writing your own Terraform modules.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions like Grafana, DataDog, Honeycomb, etc.
• Practical experience with Python or Go, Ansible and bash.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving front-end application performance, connectivity, and other issues in a production setting.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of engineering cloud based solutions that are fault tolerant and highly available in a production setting.

What Makes You Stand Out:
• At least 3 years of experience with GitLab pipelines and managing runners.
• Knowledge / familiarity with GCP services like BigQuery, VertexAI, GKE, Kubeflow pipelines, Networking, etc.
• Experience working with Confluent Cloud and managing clusters/Kafka topics.
• Experience automating pipelines for language learning models in Google Cloud.
• Experience using Grafana Alloy in both contexts of EC2 and Kubernetes. You also have experience working with core integrations like Fleet Manager and Open Telemetry.
• AWS, GCP Certifications.

Important Notes:

Please be aware that Audacy will never ask you to send money at any point during the hiring process. Communication from legitimate Audacy representatives will only come from email addresses ending in @audacy.com. If you receive any suspicious requests or communications, please verify their authenticity before responding.