Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer to join our DevOps team and take meaningful ownership of our growing infrastructure. 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

• Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), establishing reusable patterns and enforcing standards across teams
• Architect, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) with a focus on reliability, security, and developer experience
• Design and maintain Helm charts for applications and services across multiple environments
• Drive platform reliability — owning scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategy (load balancing, auto-scaling, multi-region resilience)
• Define and implement observability standards across metrics, logging, and tracing (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
• Serve as a technical lead during incidents on primary revenue-generating applications, owning resolution and contributing to post-mortems
• Mentor engineers across the team and act as a trusted advisor to development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform adoption
• Contribute to the team’s on-call rotation with a proactive, systems-thinking approach

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

• 7+ years of relevant platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience
• Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments (GKE)
• Strong Terraform skills — module authoring and IaC architecture, not just usage
• Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design at scale
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security across GCP
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture