Senior Devops Engineer (On-Site)

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.
While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!
What you'll do here:

• Plays a key technical role in facilitating various technical and business initiatives.
• Conduct code reviews and deployment upon task completion
• Work closely with the CTO, Product, Engineering, DevOps and AI Science teams
• Participates in continually refining and prioritizing the work necessary to support our DevOps tools and infrastructure.
• Guides software engineers on cloud native techniques, services and best practices for alpha, beta, and production environments.
• Be comfortable in a highly dynamic, agile environment without sacrificing the quality of work products.
• Leads the effort to continually improve our infrastructure, making it more robust, cost effective and secure.
• Manages high-availability and growth of internal systems, service updates, systems maintenance and validation.
• Stay current with emerging cloud, cybersecurity, AI, web and mobile technologies and trends.
• Sets up and automates development, testing, staging, and production systems for new products and services.
• Lead a team: task delegation, organization, motivation and feedback
• Collaborate with the product team, share feedback from project implementations and influence the product roadmap.
• Promotes the adoption and execution of industry best practices related to continuous integration and delivery, automated deployments, operations, infrastructure, support, and test automation.
• Takes requirements from various teams, proposes infrastructure solutions and implements those solutions.
• Designs and delivers reliable infrastructure, tools, and processes congruent with a cross-organization.
• Implement SRE practices, and maintains monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting.

What you need to have:

• Experience leading a small to medium-sized team
• Strong knowledge and experience in designing, configuring, and supporting software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Data, Git, GitHUB).
• Experience with serverless, containers, and network architecture
• Encryption, SSL/TLS, openssl, key and secrets management
• Script and code automation, infrastructure-as-code components and platform services
• Proficiency writing and debugging in multiple scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, Powershell, etc.)
• Diploma or Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure cloud services and Scaling/Optimization techniques
• Application and system profiling/monitoring tools and techniques such as Nagios, NewRelic, DataDog
• Good knowledge and experience with Cybersecurity best practices and tools, Data clusters and App infrastructure security experience and a working knowledge of SOC2 compliance is preferred.
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging platforms
• Strong knowledge and experience of SRE concepts, best practices and tools
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Experience working with Kubernetes running production-grade services and enterprise level traffic management.

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.