DevOps Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creative to scale the world’s fastest growing digital brands.  Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast paced culture. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward.

 2021 was a transformational year for Viral Nation, having grown by 200% and we have even bigger ambitions for 2022 and beyond.  While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people.  Strong performance leads to high expectations and we need to keep raising the bar!

Our Values

We Constantly Evolve: Embracing change is both an opportunity and a necessity!

Courage: Challenging the norm drives us forward!

Diversity: We strive for excellence and recognize that our differences make us stronger. We respect and seek out inclusion of differences, realizing we can learn from each other!

Resilience: Adversity is a springboard for growth!

Job Description

  • Takes requirements from various teams, proposes infrastructure solutions and implements those solutions.

  • Guides software engineers on cloud native techniques, services and best practices for alpha, beta, and production environments.

  • Leads the effort to continually improve our infrastructure, making it more robust, cost effective and secure.

  • Implement SRE practices, and maintains monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting.

  • Sets up and automates development, testing, staging, and production systems for new products and services.

  • Designs and delivers reliable infrastructure, tools, and processes congruent with a cross-organization.

  • Participates in continually refining and prioritizing the work necessary to support our DevOps tools and infrastructure.

  • Promotes the adoption and execution of industry best practices related to continuous integration and delivery, automated deployments, operations, infrastructure, support, and test automation.

  • Manages high-availability and growth of internal systems, service updates, systems maintenance and validation.

  • Plays a key technical role in facilitating various technical and business initiatives.

  • Work closely with the CTO, Product, Engineering, DevOps and Ai Science teams 

  • Collaborate with the product team, share feedback from project implementations and influence the product roadmap.

  • Be comfortable in a highly dynamic, agile environment without sacrificing the quality of work products.

  • Stay current with emerging cloud, cybersecurity, AI, web and mobile technologies and trends.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years working with cloud technologies and DevOps or DevOps-equivalent roles

  • Encryption, SSL/TLS, openssl, key and secrets management

  • Application and system profiling/monitoring tools and techniques such as Nagios, NewRelic, DataDog

  • Strong knowledge and experience of AWS cloud services and Scaling/Optimization techniques

  • Script and code automation, infrastructure-as-code components and platform services

  • Good knowledge and experience with Cybersecurity best practices and tools, Data clusters and App infrastructure security experience and a working knowledge of SOC2 compliance is preferred. 

  • Strong knowledge and experience of SRE concepts, best practices and tools

  • Strong knowledge and experience in designing, configuring, and supporting software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Data, Git, GitLab). 

  • Proficiency writing and debugging in multiple scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, Powershell, etc.)

  • Experience working with Kubernetes running production-grade services and enterprise level traffic management.

  • Experience with event-driven systems and messaging platforms

  • Experience with serverless, containers, and network architecture

Additional Information

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.