Senior DevOps Engineer

🏢 About the COOL Company

At the COOL company, we build win-win environments. We use innovation, advanced AI, and groundbreaking ad tech to improve experiences for users, publishers, franchisees, and advertisers. Our goal? To help everyone achieve more than they thought possible. We're constantly expanding, acquiring, and upgrading to better serve our growing client base worldwide.

Our brands include:

• ADventori: A data-driven ad server personalizing and optimizing digital ads.
• Balihoo: An advertising management platform for franchise businesses.
• COOL Media: A managed service solution for agencies and brands.
• Insticator: A leading SSP and engagement platform for publishers.
• OKO Digital: Helping website and app publishers maximize ad revenue.

We reach over 350 million consumers monthly through our network of premium publishers and advertisers, including Disney, Hyundai, and many more. We're proud recipients of numerous awards recognizing our rapid growth and innovation in digital media. This role is specifically within our Insticator subsidiary.

Insticator maximizes publisher revenue through differentiated franchise brands and a suite of engagement, ad monetization, SaaS, and media products. We empower publishers with first-party data, giving them control over audience understanding and precise targeting. Our portfolio includes OKO (a Google Certified Publishing Partner for Connected TV) and Balihoo (a leader in multi-location marketing). We're expanding globally, making us a leader in managed-service media solutions.

🚀 Our Core Values: C.O.O.L.

• Creative: We creatively integrate new elements.
• Optimistic: We're optimistic and drive success.
• Open-Minded: We embrace new ideas and approaches.
• Leaders: We lead our industry through bold initiatives.

We also value:

• Sleeves Up: Autonomy and creativity to own your role and drive impact.
• 100% Viewability: Open feedback for fast failure and real-time creation.
• Be Defiantly Great: Challenging the status quo and exceeding expectations.

🎯 About the Role

We serve billions of impressions monthly, collecting data to serve better ads. Our publishers need a stable, high-quality product. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll ensure our systems scale to handle massive data volumes and billions of requests, providing in-depth analytics. You'll work on various back-end systems, owning features from conception to delivery.

✨ Challenges and Opportunities

• Personal Impact: Plan, architect, and release new products and features.
• Organized Team: Work in an efficient, agile environment with well-defined tasks.
• Fun Environment: A collaborative team that balances hard work with fun.
• Growth: Explore new technologies and techniques; management encourages change.

⚙️ Responsibilities and Duties

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve services.
• Audit infrastructure for performance enhancements.
• Build, gather, and analyze metrics for performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems through automation and upgrades.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability.
• Maintain high SLAs.
• Stay updated on infrastructure trends and push technological advancements.

💪 Qualifications

Professional Competencies:

• Extensive experience building distributed architecture between cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) and on-premise servers.
• Proactive problem identification and improvement.
• Programming skills in Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, or JavaScript.
• Extensive AWS experience (EKS, ECS, ECR, EC2, RDS, VPC, etc.).
• Expertise in logging, monitoring, and alerting tools (Cloudwatch, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.).
• CI/CD framework experience.
• Experience re-architecting and migrating infrastructure.
• Strong Kubernetes experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Problem-solving abilities.
• Understanding of cloud security best practices.
• Documentation skills (architecture diagrams, processes, procedures).

Cultural Competencies:

• Ability to work primarily between 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM ET.
• Player/coach mentality.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Effective feedback skills.
• Collaborative mindset and teamwork skills.
• Adaptability and learning agility.
• Research-mindedness and data-driven approach.
• Creative confidence.
• Proactive communication.
• Sense of humor and appreciation for online culture.
• Thrives in a startup environment.

🎁 Benefits

• Annual Performance Bonus
• Paid Time Off
• Company Holidays