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 publishersno 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 Verves solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States top 100 advertisers 4000 publishers globally and the worlds top demand-side platforms. Learn more at.

Who You Are

The DevOps Engineer is the backbone of the Systems Engineering team within Engineering at the Verve. 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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