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Job Description

_Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve._

_This is a hybrid position in Jersey City, New Jersey. This role requires to be on location in our Jersey City office one to two days per week or more often as needed._

The **Infrastructure Engineer** collaborates with others to scale and secure our web and data platforms. This position builds cloud infrastructure across Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using tools like GitLab and Terraform to automate deployments and embed security in delivery. This role blends cloud engineering, developer enablement, and security-minded practices to deliver reliable and well-governed systems.

_The base salary range is $120,000 to $130,000 per year._

_What you’ll be doing:_

Infrastructure Ownership & Security Posture

+ Drive security and governance efforts across AWS and GCP by managing accounts, projects, and org-level policies.

+ Define guardrails and patterns for data platform operations, aligning access models, design, and secure integrations with enterprise security goals.

+ Contribute to strategies that surface misconfigurations, misuse, and access risks across cloud environments.

+ Support our enterprise web infrastructure, including DNS configuration, CDN management, and website deployment and troubleshooting.

Access and Observability

+ Help implement secure access management practices across cloud and data platforms, with a focus on systems like GitLab, AWS, and Snowflake.

+ Support security goals through secret rotation and centralized logging across environments.

+ Shape our observability strategy so teams get reliable signals for performance, cost, and security.

Software Development Lifecycle

+ Support GitLab management, including CI/CD workflows, repo structure, and security architecture.

+ Develop scripts and automations in Python and Bash to support day-to-day operations.

+ Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc) to provision and maintain our infrastructure components.

Security Governance & Resilience

+ Coordinate with the Data Governance team to facilitate audits and support security-related data practices.

+ Drive security improvements across our key platforms to meet enterprise compliance goals.

+ Help shape disaster recovery and continuity practices to improve infrastructure resilience.

To be considered for this role, you should have:

+ Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical work experience

+ Minimum five years’ experience building/running multi-account cloud platforms in production, with three or more years on AWS or GCP

+ Three or more years owning CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub), artifact/security gates, and release automation

+ Demonstratable experience supporting enterprise web infrastructure, DNS, and CDNs.

+ Hands-on IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), monitoring, and incident response

+ Strong collaboration and communication skills to work cross-functionally with developers, security teams and product managers

+ Ability to troubleshoot complex systems, think critically and propose scalable solutions

+ Comfortable working in agile environments and participating in sprint planning, retrospectives and stand-ups

+ Proven track record shipping cross-functional projects; excellent written/verbal communications

+ Security-first mindset with a focus on embedding governance and compliance into infrastructure

+ Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management, and secrets management

+ Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages

+ Experience in a large news/media organization and modern data platforms like Snowflake and DBT a plus

General office environment. Extensive computer use required.

Additional Information

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.

Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com .

Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, PA Media Group, ZeroSum, Headline Group, Adpearance, Advance Aviation, Advance Healthcare, Advance Education, Advance National Solutions, Advance Recruitment, Advance Travel & Tourism, BookingsCloud, Cloud Theory, Fox Dealer, Hoot Interactive, Red Clay Media, Search Optics, Subtext.

_Advance Local Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law._

_If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information._

Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.