DevOps Engineer (GCP)

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.

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.

• 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