Job Description: Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer

Salary: $136,000 - $165,000 USD Annually Location Type: Not specified Employment Type: Not specified

Position Overview

iSpot.tv is seeking a talented and passionate Senior DevOps/SRE engineer to join our Developer Experience (DevEx) team. This role is crucial in empowering our engineering teams by creating and implementing intuitive tools, optimizing workflows, and fostering a seamless development experience. We aim to enhance productivity, collaboration, and innovation by delivering robust solutions that remove friction, streamline processes, and support the continuous evolution of engineering excellence.

Our DevEx team consists of senior engineers who work collaboratively with minimal supervision. While we focus more on the "Dev" aspect of DevOps/SRE, significant experience on the operations side is required as we support teams running systems on AWS and Kubernetes. We practice "eating our own dog food," utilizing the same tech stack and processes we recommend, and believe in preferring "buy" over "build" for the simplest solutions.

What You’ll Be Part Of

iSpot.tv is transforming how brands, agencies, and networks measure and assess the impact of TV advertising. We connect TV advertising to actual business outcomes, enabling top brands to plan, measure, and optimize their TV and streaming ad campaigns, and understand their influence on business growth. iSpot is experiencing rapid growth and is looking for top talent to fuel this expansion.

We work with BIG data, primarily in AWS, utilizing multiple Kubernetes clusters and thousands of servers. This is an opportunity to tackle a wide array of projects and grow significantly as a senior DevOps engineer.

Responsibilities

• Empower engineering teams by creating or implementing intuitive tools.
• Optimize workflows and foster a seamless development experience.
• Enhance productivity, collaboration, and innovation through robust solutions.
• Remove friction and streamline processes for engineering teams.
• Support the continuous evolution of engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with other teams inside and outside of the Engineering organization.
• Research and select new/modern developer toolsets and assist teams in adopting them.
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure, including ECR, RDS, Route53, SQS/SNS, VPC.
• Maintain and improve Kubernetes deployments, runtime, and monitoring.
• Manage and reduce AWS costs.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with automated software testing concepts.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
• Utilize high-level scripting languages for automation and tooling.
• Implement and manage monitoring tools.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience researching and selecting new developer toolsets and assisting adoption.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services: ECR, RDS, Route53, SQS/SNS, VPC, and AWS CLI.
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes and containerization (kubectl, Helm, ArgoCD).
• 3+ years working with AWS EKS deployments, runtime, and monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of AWS costs and cost reduction strategies.
• Basic TCP/IP networking knowledge (routing, AWS security groups).
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and pipeline development experience.
• Working knowledge of automated software testing concepts.
• Working knowledge of IaC concepts with implementation experience.
• Proficient in high-level scripting languages (shell scripting, Python, JavaScript).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog).
• 10+ years of relevant experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in AdTech.
• Experience with CircleCI, Snyk, Codecov, Airflow/MWAA.
• Proficiency with Terraform/Terragrunt.

Company Information

iSpot competes for the best talent. Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.

We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation. The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full-time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options. Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay.