About the position
Tegna is seeking a skilled and forward-thinking Cloud Engineer to join our growing technology team. As a cloud-native, and microservices-driven engineering organization, Cloud engineering plays a critical role in enabling velocity, reliability, and scale. In this role, you’ll collaborate across development, QA, and platform teams to streamline CI/CD processes, infrastructure management, observability, and developer experience. This position is ideal for someone who thrives on automation, performance, and continuous improvement — and who wants to help shape the future of how media technology is delivered.
Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
• Support and evolve infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform
• Optimize cloud resource management and orchestration across AWS and Azure environments
• Enable observability and monitoring through tools like New Relic and custom dashboards
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to integrate CI/CD, monitoring, and security into development workflows
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of our cloud-native and microservice-based architecture
• Automate routine tasks to reduce manual effort and increase reliability in development, testing, and deployment
• Provide guidance and best practices on containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Requirements
• 3+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related roles
• Experience with CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps
• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
• Familiar with logging, metrics, and distributed tracing platforms (e.g., New Relic, CloudWatch)
• Hands-on experience managing cloud-native environments (AWS and/or Azure)
• Knowledge of secure DevOps practices and identity/access management
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and supporting developers directly
• Passion for automation, developer productivity, and continuous delivery
Nice-to-haves
• Highly collaborative and service-oriented
• Curious and continuous learner
• Strong attention to detail and operational excellence
• Thrives in fast-paced, hybrid working environments
• Aligned with Tegna’s principles: outcome-focused, ownership-driven, and improvement-minded
Benefits
• Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
• Access to dental and eye care coverage
• Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) program with company match
• Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc for all employees and eligible family members
• 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health for all employees and eligible family members
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Nine paid holidays per year