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It is dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. CFR’s 5,000+ members are leaders in international affairs and foreign policy. CFR also publishes Foreign Affairs, the preeminent magazine on global issues, and provides up-to-date information about the world and U.S. foreign policy on its award-winning website, CFR.org.\nPosition Summary\nThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer / Site Reliability Engineer. This role is responsible for maintaining the secure and reliable functioning of our digital properties including CFR.org, ForeignAffairs.com, Think Global Health, The China Open Source Observatory, and other associated web and mobile sites. The portfolio spans a managed WordPress VIP publishing platform, Pantheon publishing platform, and custom AWS applications.\nThis role owns the reliability, resilience, security, and observability of those properties, the delivery pipeline that ships to them, and a growing set of AI and agentic services built on top of them. Your goal is to prevent outages; when incidents happen, you lead the response and make sure we learn from them. You will work closely with the software engineering team and report to the associate vice president of product, design, and engineering.\nThis full-time position is based in CFR’s New York City or Washington D.C. office on a hybrid basis. CFR currently defines hybrid status as working at least four days a week onsite, with Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays considered institutional anchor days where all staff are required to be onsite.\nEssential Functions/Responsibilities\nDefine and track SLOs and error budgets for each property. Own on-call, incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems. \nRun observability, logging, and alerting systems (Datadog, Dash0) to track service health, improve resilience, and prevent downtime, and raise issues before visitors or stakeholders ever see a problem. \nOwn infrastructure, backup, and disaster recovery documentation and execution. \nMaintain the CI/CD pipelines for CFR.org and our applications, including WordPress VIP and Pantheon deploys as well as custom AWS apps; debug failed runs and keep configurations current. \nProvision and manage AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, with policy checks and drift detection in the pipeline. \nIdentify opportunities to use automation, testing, and deployments. \nBuild security into every stage of delivery: manage Okta-based role-based access, own secrets, key management and rotation. \nOwn infrastructure, backup, and disaster recovery documentation and execution. \nOwn AWS security posture and edge/WAF configuration. \nLead incident response, determine root cause on production issues, mitigate, and provide technical support to the engineering team as needed. \nAssist DevSecOps contractors, vendors, and cross-functional technical contributors to deliver against the platform roadmap \nMinimum Qualifications\nExperience\n3-7 years experience in DevOps, SRE, platform or security engineering. \nProven experience with AWS and infrastructure as code with Terraform. \nExperience with managed platforms such as WordPress VIP, Pantheon, Acquia, or similar. \nExperience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and multi-environment deployments. Familiarity with supply-chain security tooling. \nHands-on experience applying zero-trust principles. SSO/MFA through an identity provider (Okta), least-privilege IAM, short-lived credentials, and secrets management (1password, AWS Secrets Manager or similar). \nScripting in Bash and Python. Working familiarity with PHP and Node.js/TypeScript. 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