United States onlyMediaocean is searching for a highly skilled SRE to join our team and play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our advertising platforms utilized by customers and partners globally.
As a member of our Platform Services team, you will be improving the core systems operated by that team while collaborating with multiple feature teams to ensure the security, reliability, performance, and flexibility of our global infrastructure.
Responsibilities will include:
- Collaborate with other SREs and engineering teams to design and deploy our hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure
- Maintain a keen eye for detail, leverage critical thinking skills, and effectively troubleshoot complex issues
- Actively identify infrastructural risks and work towards managing those risks, while maintaining flexibility and developer velocity
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide support for applications, infrastructure, and systems
Who You Are:
- Linux Administration
- 5+ years of experience administering Linux production environments
- 3+ years of experience with at least one primary programming language
- 3+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code provisioning and configuration management tools (Chef, SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible)
- Strong understanding of shell scripting and task automation
- Infrastructure and Cloud
- 3+ years of experience working with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC)
- 3+ years of experience working with production VMs
- 3+ years experience with containers (Docker, containerd) and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Docker compose)
- Experience in on-premises or collocated datacenter environments
- Experience with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Github Actions)
- Other
- Experience with database administration tasks including installation, maintenance, backup, recovery, performance tuning, replication management, monitoring, and development of best practices
- Deep understanding of web fundamentals – HTTP, load balancing, REST, CDNs, etc.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and system optimization skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with evolving priorities
- Preferred
- Experience administering and networking a KVM/QEMU VM environment
- Experience with networking protocols (BGP, OSPF, etc.), and switch gear/firewalls (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, etc.)
- Experience administering a time-series database, particularly InfluxDB
Why Mediaocean?
- Competitive total compensation, including 401(K) employer match and financial wellness seminars
- Extensive medical, dental, and vision plan – Keep your family (or just yourself!) safe and healthy
- Flexible time off – In addition to our 14 company holidays, we provide open PTO to all U.S.- based Mediaocean employees. So take a sick day, vacation day, or mental health day
- Bonding Leave – After six months of employment at Mediaocean, mothers and fathers, including same-sex parents, can take job-protected, paid time off to bond with their child within the first 12 months of the child’s birth or adoption
- Insurance, Pet Insurance, employer matched Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Professional development – Personalized development plan created with your manager, continuous internal and external trainings, official company-wide mentorship program, professional development rewards program, management, leadership, and function-specific training for top performance, education reimbursement
- Get rewarded for demonstrating Mediaocean values
- Active affinity-based groups – Form connections with similar peers in offices around the world. Groups include: Women at MO, Black Employees at Mediaocean (BEMO), Pride at MO, Mi gente (Hispanic/Latinx community), AAPI at MO, Parents at MO, International Enrichment, Language Lovers, Books & Beyond, DEI in Engineering, and Mental Health & Wellness, and Caregivers United
- Wellness opportunities – Free virtual yoga and abs and glutes classes, company-paid Headspace meditation app membership, company-wide steps challenges, complimentary snacks in-office
- Bikeshare program in select offices, (Divvy and CitiBike for Chicago and New York offices)
- All of these benefits/perks are effective on the date of hire
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