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Overview

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 that deliver streaming broadcast radio and podcasts for Audacy’s 40M active monthly listeners. 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 at Audacy.

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 leverageVPC 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.

About Us

Audacy is a scaled, leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company differentiated by its exclusive, premium audio content. Audacy operates one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups with leading positions across the country’s largest markets, as well as one of the country’s largest podcast networks and the Audacy direct-to-consumer streaming platform. Audacy is a major event producer and a digital marketing solutions provider and is the unrivaled leader in local news and sports radio. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com , Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/audacycorp) , X (https://twitter.com/AudacyCorp) , LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/audacy-inc/mycompany/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lifeataudacy/) .

EEO

_Audacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis._

**Job Locations** _USA-PA-Philadelphia_

**ID** _2025-7802_

**Category** _Engineering_

**Type** _Full Time Employee_