Software Engineer II (Site Reliability Engineer)

Your New Role...

The CNN Digital Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking their next Engineer to help us expand the positive collaborative impact we have on CNN engineering teams. 

CNN has a next generation Content Management System (CMS) that is built from the ground up to be cloud native. The CMS is used to power all of CNN's global journalism as well as a hub for new products. 

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers to support CNN Digital teams in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining applications and infrastructure. You’ll help automate workflows, improve reliability, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our cloud-native platform. 

We are looking for engineers who are comfortable across the stack and interested in solving unique and challenging problems. 

We manage key engineering-focused systems and services, including certificate management, Multi-Provider DNS, Common Event Bus, Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and more. 

Your Role Accountabilities...​ 

• Assist in managing cloud infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation and Terraform. 

• Support automation efforts through scripting in Bash and Python. 

• Help maintain production and lower environments by applying updates, troubleshooting issues, and upgrading services. 

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild. 

• Help monitor and maintain services in AWS (e.g., RDS, ECS, EKS, Fargate, SQS, Redis, OpenSearch). 

• Learn and apply best practices in cloud security, cost optimization, and infrastructure reliability. 

• Engage in code reviews and contribute to team discussions around architecture and process improvements with senior engineers. 

• Stay informed on industry trends and bring fresh ideas to the team. 

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience and reduce friction in the development process. 

• Leverage AI-driven tools and automation frameworks to optimize CI/CD pipelines, enhance system monitoring and proactively identify and resolve infrastructure efficiencies and challenges. 

Qualifications and Experience...

• BS degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience with 2+ years of relevant experience 

• 1–3 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles. 

• Familiarity with containers (Docker), container orchestration tools (Kubernetes or ECS), cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools. 

• Basic scripting skills in Bash and/or Python. 

• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools. 

• Familiarity with working with command line tools such as aws-cli and kubectl 

• Eagerness to learn and grow in a collaborative engineering environment. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 

The Nice to Haves...

• Automating internal developer portal workflows 

• Supporting or writing NodeJS apps and Java/Groovy pipelines in Jenkins. 

• Experience with monitoring tools and logging systems. 

• Interest in developer experience, automation, and platform engineering. 

• Participation in open-source projects or technical communities.