VP of Infrastructure
About adMarketplace
With 20 years of search marketing expertise our goal is to add value to every search. On the simplest level we are the largest consumer search technology platform outside of Google and Bing. adMarketplace delivers incremental search traffic across native channels, including mobile apps, consumer sites, and browsers. Our technology enables audiences to skip search results pages and navigate directly to trusted sites in moments of intent. As well as driving incremental reach we are also market leaders in terms of privacy and performance.
The Role
The ideal candidate is motivated designing for scale, developing for high availability, and has a strong interest in cloud engineering, containerization, and DevSecOps solutions. Our team uses a modern tech stack including Kafka, NoSQL, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and more.
What You'll Do:
- Manage, mentor and grow the Infrastructure/DevOps team; Inherit a team of 3+ engineers from day one
- Develop the skills and talents of others
- Coach and mentor engineers and managers to be more effective and successful
- Provide guidance, direction, and support
- Work closely with upper management to define strategies and plans related to infrastructure systems stability, reliability, security and scalability (both on-prem and cloud)
- Lead, own and drive infrastructure/DevOps projects from start to completion related to 24/7 low latency large-scale distributed mission-critical systems
- Scale the company infrastructure and services from on-prem to the containerized cloud including solutions analysis, defining cloud strategy, architecture design, determining migration priorities, technical plans, and hands-on implementation
- Design, implement, optimize, and support highly-scalable, highly-available production infrastructure in Kubernetes running containerized services
- Represent the Infrastructure Team in cross-functional projects, meetings and to the company at large
Qualifications:
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in managing and leading infrastructure teams and projects
- 4+ years of experience as a Systems or DevOps Engineer
- Experience with large scale production systems
- Strong knowledge and experience of cloud services and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Strong knowledge and experience of Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and container orchestration
- Good knowledge and experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud-agnostic strategy (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with CentOS, RedHat, or Oracle Enterprise Linux
- Must have exceptional leadership, communication, and project management skills
- Operates with a vision and belief in developing the skills and talents of others
- Is a plus:
- Digital advertising industry experience
- Hands-on on-prem to the cloud migration experience
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Familiarity with microservices
- Experience working in an agile software development team using Jira