TED creates, produces and distributes ideas conveyed through video and audio (most famously TED Talks) to many millions of people around the world. 

TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Everything we do is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?

As a System Administrator, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations, monitoring, and issue resolution within TED’s enterprise-scale technology environment.  You will help developers deploy and monitor software products, as well as configure and manage shared infrastructure-level products.  You will work directly with software engineers on the Technology team, technical points of contact throughout the company and key vendors.

• 6+ years of professional experience in system administration
• Oriented towards service and responsiveness to incidents and blockers as they arise
• At least 3 years experience with core AWS services (Unix, EC2, S3, RDS)
• Experience installing and maintaining Linux physical machines, virtual machines, and Docker images (Ubuntu, CentOS, and/or Alpine)
• Production experience with one or more container orchestration systems (Docker Swarm, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Experience developing, maintaining and executing runbook procedures to ensure process consistency
• Comfortable performing common database administration tasks (backups, user management)
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline construction and management
• Familiarity with using a CDN to enhance website performance and reduce costs
• Comfortable reading code written in Ruby, Go, Python and bash, and writing code in bash and one of these languages.
• An insatiable curiosity for technology, software, and quality
• Must be a self-starter who will stop at nothing to clear blockers and ship products
• Must hold yourself to the highest standards for precision work, including the use of retrospectives and blameless postmortems to facilitate continuous improvement
• Must be a ferocious debugger who is unfazed by complex systems mixes of SaaS and in-house software, and emerging technologies
• Values cross-functional collaboration
• Values a diverse workplace

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure 24x7x365 service availability for deployed applications, including periodic on-call responsibilities
• Ensure newly-developed systems are designed to meet performance, security, and availability requirements
• Define company direction for production software deployments
• Work with software developers to maintain build system and toolchain
• Be the subject matter expert for infrastructure-level technologies (e.g. DNS, CDN, Linux, MySQL, AWS, Docker)
• Help technical points of contact across the company integrate 3rd party or agency-developed applications
• Experiment with new technologies and share discoveries with the team
• Foster growth and support other engineers through constructive, collaborative code reviews
• Clearly communicate technical constraints and opportunities with stakeholders
• Willingness to contribute however possible to ensure overall effectiveness of position
• Other duties and special projects as may be assigned from time to time
• Travel: Upon request / as needed

 **This New York City based, hybrid position (3 days per week in-office) requires working during U.S. East Coast hours. 

Salary Range: USD 105,000 - 135,000