Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 30 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at www.verve.com.

Who you are

The DevOps Engineer is the backbone of the Systems Engineering team within Engineering at the Verve Group. As a technology generalist, you are comfortable with tasks ranging from bare-metal server provisioning and networking to IAAS provisioning, task automation, performance tuning and optimization, and working with virtualized or containerized applications and services.

You are also focused on reproducibility and a less-is-more approach, utilizing automation tools, documentation, and practical, proactive communication to significant effect. You are comfortable in a self-directed environment supporting infrastructure for a geographically distributed engineering team. Additionally, you are prepared to "be bold" and take the initiative, be challenged, share your knowledge with your peers, and have no issues reaching out to your mentors when a challenge exceeds your knowledge or skill set.

Our Platform

• We create high-frequency (~2M QPS), low latency transactional systems that are the core of our open exchange.

• We design, develop and maintain a complex stack of interdependencies as part of a 24/7 geographically distributed operation that handles real-time bidding for advertisements.

• We are building the most reliable, flexible, cost-efficiency, and scalable real-time bidding platform in the industry.

What You Will Do

• Manage physical, virtual and network infrastructure, from bare-metal/base instance provisioning to middleware updates and configuration management

• Assist in maintaining a base set of images and configurations for Engineering to use and deploy new systems, nodes, or containers, and work with automated CI/CD systems for deployment

• Maintain a deep understanding of our network infrastructure, data transport, storage, backup and utilization (including cost accounting) in a hybrid-cloud environment

• Ensure that all maintenance activities are repeatable via configuration management, IAAS templating and verification

• Work as an active liaison between multiple development teams and SysEng as a whole

• Be a part of an on-call rotation, responsible for first-contact infrastructure alert response, as well as a second-level escalation from other teams as required

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of experience working as a System/DevOps Engineer, with a focus on stable, reproducible applications, middleware, and infrastructure

• 2-3 years of experience with any CI/CD platform

• Strong knowledge of scripting and serialization languages (bash, python, yaml, json) and their use in configuration management and automation

• Experience and understanding of virtualized, containerized, cloud, and bare-metal Linux infrastructure, including AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and physical server and networking infrastructure

• Comfortable with networking paradigms at both data center and virtualized (container) level, including the concepts of proxying, HTTPS offloading, Port and IP redirection, and how to effectively monitor dataflow at the TCP/IP level

• Comfortable with Terraform or IAAS frameworks, Helm or config management solutions, Bare-metal or elastic Kubernetes, Jenkins or other build automation and deployment systems

• Knowledge and proficiency with object-storage paradigms (s3/GCS/ceph), networked and instance storage, and backup and lifecycle management for these systems

• Proficiency with structured data (i.e. MySQL), including backups, replication, and server performance optimization

• Experience with agile development paradigms

• Familiarity with the development process (git/GitHub, PRs, commit hooks) surrounding modern languages (golang, java, scala), sufficient to interact with development teams regularly

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to lead discussions with peers and managers from other technical teams

What We Offer

Just a few of the benefits waiting for you at Verve:

• Keep healthy through our Apollo Health Check-ups, and stay covered with our Medical Insurance for you and your family

• Pick what matters most to you in our INR 4100/month Personalized Benefits Platform: Travel, entertainment, food, fitness, and healthcare

• Have us cover your office lunches 3 times a week through Zomato, and enjoy office sweets, snacks, and beverages

• Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars, and level up your language skills through our German/English classes

• Recharge with 19 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays

• Strengthen team connections while exploring new cultures through our monthly Work&Travel raffle, offering a chance to work from one of our global offices (after 2 years of employment)

• … and even more reasons to join us!

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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