Platform Engineer (Remote / Contract)

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are </strong></p> <p>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. Learn more at&nbsp;<a href="https://verve.com/">verve.com</a>.<strong><br></strong></p></div><p>Verve For Advertisers is a technology company that empowers brands and agencies to connect moments of discovery and drive measurable outcomes across screens.</p> <p>As part of Verve, we've unified the company's demand-side offering, bringing together the largest on-site search intent dataset outside of walled gardens, direct SDK integrations with top apps, alongside data partnerships with 3M+ websites and LLMs. Our technology captures both what consumers do and why they do it, delivering high-fidelity audiences, insights, and activation across premium omnichannel inventory.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our dev ops team to help us manage our diverse and growing set of initiatives. </span><strong>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.</strong></p> <p><strong>Responsibilities include</strong></p> <ul> <li>Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)</li> <li>Develop, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)</li> <li>Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE)</li> <li>Create and maintain Helm charts for applications and services</li> <li>Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and availability (load balancing, auto-scaling, disaster recovery)</li> <li>Set up and manage observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)</li> <li>Provide operational support for primary revenue-generating applications, participating proactively in incident resolution</li> <li>Guide development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform usage</li> <li>Contribute to the team's on-call rotation</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technologies we use</strong></p> <ul> <li>Programming Languages</li> <ul> <li>Ruby/Rails</li> <li>Elixir</li> <li>Python</li> <li>JavaScript (JQuery, AngularJS, Vue.js)</li> </ul> <li>Cloud Platforms</li> <ul> <li>AWS - EKS, ECS, RDS (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Redis, Elasticache, CodePipeline)</li> <li>GCP - GKE, BiqQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Build)</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred skills and experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>2+ years of relevant work experience</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Communications regarding your application will only come from @jungroup.com or @verve.com email addresses.</strong></span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Hourly Rate</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$30</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$40 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.&nbsp;<br><br>If you are a California resident subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, <a href="https://verve.com/california-applicant-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">click here</a> to understand how Verve processes your personal information and how you can exercise your rights.<br></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">If you are located in the EU or UK visit our&nbsp;</span><a style="font-size: 8pt;" href="https://verve.com/applicant-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">privacy policy</a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> to understand how Verve processes your personal information and how you can exercise your rights.</span></p></div>