Cloud Team Lead

About TEGNA TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. We are looking for a Cloud Team Lead to lead the cloud and DevOps team that builds and operates the infrastructure behind TEGNA's content management and streaming platforms across Azure and AWS. Content management runs on Azure (C#/.NET Function Apps, Service Bus), streaming runs on AWS media services, and cloud-agnostic services run on Kubernetes — all Terraform-managed. Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, this is a hands-on technical leadership role: you lead a team of onshore and offshore cloud engineers, own the team's delivery and the reliability of the platform's infrastructure, and stay hands-on in the work. You partner closely with the Cloud Architect — who sets reference architectures and standards and holds production approval — to deliver well-architected infrastructure, and with the microservices pods on their infrastructure needs. Responsibilities: - Lead a distributed team of cloud/DevOps engineers (onshore and offshore), owning planning, delivery, quality, and day-to-day technical direction. - Remain hands-on: contribute to Terraform/infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes workloads across Azure and AWS. - Own the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of the platform's infrastructure, including incident response and the on-call rotation. - Break infrastructure initiatives and epics into actionable, well-sequenced work, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health. - Partner with the Cloud Architect to apply the standards, reference architectures, and guardrails they define, and with the dev pods to support their delivery. - Drive engineering practices across the team: IaC standards, pipeline safety, observability, and security. - Mentor and grow engineers, and manage the throughput and quality of offshore contributors. - Run an Agile/Scrum delivery cadence with disciplined source control. Requirements: - 7+ years in cloud, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years leading or mentoring a team. - Strong hands-on experience with Terraform/infrastructure-as-code across Azure and/or AWS; multi-cloud experience is a strong plus. - Solid experience with CI/CD, containers and Kubernetes, cloud networking, IAM/identity, observability, and security best practices. - Experience operating production infrastructure and leading incident response. - Proven ability to lead distributed and offshore teams, keeping quality and velocity high across time zones. - Strong communication skills across front-end, architecture, and microservice development teams. - Media, streaming, or high-traffic platform experience is a plus. Why Join TEGNA? You'll lead the team that keeps modern digital products running at real scale, in a genuinely multi-cloud Azure/AWS environment with a rich media and streaming footprint. This is an opportunity to shape both the reliability of the platform and the engineering culture of the team that powers content management and streaming delivery across all of TEGNA's media properties. We are investing heavily in AI-assisted development, modern cloud-native services, and flexible architecture patterns that let our teams innovate quickly while delivering high-quality, high-impact products. Benefits: TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance. Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one. Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health. TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year. * Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union. EEO statement: TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. 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