Platform Engineer (Remote / Contract)

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.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our dev ops team to help us manage our diverse and growing set of initiatives. This position is a contract role and can work remotely anywhere in the US or outside of the US. They should be willing and open to collaborate with our US based engineering team during their business hours.

Responsibilities include

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Develop, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE)
• Create and maintain Helm charts for applications and services
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and availability (load balancing, auto-scaling, disaster recovery)
• Set up and manage observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
• Provide operational support for primary revenue-generating applications, participating proactively in incident resolution
• Guide development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform usage
• Contribute to the team's on-call rotation

Technologies we use

• Programming Languages
  • Ruby/Rails
  • Elixir
  • Python
  • JavaScript (JQuery, AngularJS, Vue.js)
• Cloud Platforms
  • AWS - EKS, ECS, RDS (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Redis, Elasticache, CodePipeline)
  • GCP - GKE, BiqQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Build)

Preferred skills and experience

• 2+ years of relevant work experience

We're open to allowing the right person to learn our industry on the job. We welcome diversity and non-traditional paths into all of our roles. We believe in hiring the right person as opposed to the right combination of keywords.