Senior DevOps

Senior DevOps Engineer

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing trusted local news and services. With 64 television stations across 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across digital, mobile, streaming, and television platforms. We are focused on innovation, technology excellence, and building scalable solutions that create meaningful impact.

Position Overview

TEGNA is looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code to design, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience operating Kubernetes workloads in production, building CI/CD pipelines, and implementing monitoring and security best practices. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to work in fast-paced, distributed environments.

You will play a key role in ensuring platform reliability, automation maturity, and production stability across cloud-native microservices systems.

What You’ll Do

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins to enable automated and reliable deployments.

• Deploy, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters in production.

• Implement containerization strategies using Docker and manage microservices-based architectures.

• Set up and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes-native monitoring tools.

• Design and manage API traffic handling using REST, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, API Gateway, and load-balancing strategies.

• Ensure infrastructure and application security best practices including OWASP compliance, static code analysis, and container security.

• Troubleshoot performance issues, outages, and scaling challenges in production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data, and security teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering roles.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services in production environments.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes administration and production operations.

• Strong experience with Docker and cloud-native microservices architecture.

• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language: Python, Go, or Shell scripting.

• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB).

• Strong Linux fundamentals and system-level troubleshooting skills.

• Understanding of infrastructure and application security best practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS data services such as DMS, Glue, Athena, or Redshift.

• Experience working in start-up or high-growth environments.

• Experience collaborating with distributed / remote teams.

• Exposure to advanced observability, performance tuning, or cost optimization strategies.

Why TEGNA?

At TEGNA, we’re not just building systems, we’re redefining the media industry through technology. You'll join a team committed to transparency, shared understanding, and building high-impact platforms with speed and stability. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of enabling our engineering teams to deliver at scale.

Join us to shape the infrastructure behind great digital experiences and drive meaningful impact for millions of users!