Position: SRE k8s
Company: Pulsepoint
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Description**
PulsePoint, a global programmatic advertising platform with specialized healthcare expertise, fuses the science of programmatic targeting, distribution and optimization with the art of brand engagement. The PulsePoint platform is powered by terabytes of impression-level data, allowing brands to efficiently engage the right audiences at scale while helping publishers increase yield through actionable insights.

As a part of the SRE team (working REMOTELY) you will be challenged, expected to grow your technical knowledge, challenge your fellow team members, and they will challenge you back. Our team is not competitive, but we are goal oriented and driven to succeed.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Ensure reliability and scalability of our multi datacenter and hybrid Linux environments.
- Managing the large-scale Linux infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime.
- Performance and reliability testing. This may include reviewing configuration, software choices/versions, hardware specs, etc.
- Advancing our technology stack with innovative ideas and new creative solutions.
- Participating in capacity management of core systems and services, application analysis and performance and security tuning. 
- Provide operational support of systems and build automation to remediate and address the root cause; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
- Create strategies for long term permanent fixes to critical production incidents.
- Maintain documentation, build tooling, and create alerts to both identify and address infrastructure reliability.
- Proactively identify system anomalies.

**Working hours**: 9am - 6pm EST

**Who are you**:

- Collaboration is in your DNA. You enjoy contributing to a mutual cause, that is why you know when the team succeeds, you succeed.
- You are always looking for ways to grow your skills. You are hungry to learn new technologies and sharing your insights with your team.
- You like a big picture perspective and also digging into the fine details. You can think strategy but also dive into complex systems break them down and build them back better.
- You are a proactive problem solver. You are irked by an unreliable infrastructure and your first instinct is to find ways to fix it.
**Requirements**
- Thorough understanding of Linux (we use CentOS in production)
- Deep understanding of Puppet configuration management tool
- You know what git is and can easily resolve a merge conflict
- Advanced knowledge of K8s and its ecosystem
- Experience administering SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ES)
- Experience with scalable infrastructure monitoring solutions such as Icinga, Prometheus, ELK
- Any scripting language (Python/Ruby/Shell etc)
- Understanding of basic networking concepts (TCP/IP stack, DNS, CDN, load balancing)
**Bonus, but not required**:
- AWS / VMWare
- Cassandra
- Mesosphere stack
- Train/mentor junior-level staff
- Experience in AdTech or High-Frequency Trading a plus
- Experience with Security-related best practices a plus
**Benefits**:
- $2,000 annual training and development budget
- Annual company retreat
- Volunteer Time Off and Donation Matching, ongoing group volunteer opportunities
- Game Nights, meditation/mindfulness sessions, fitness and stretch classes, book club, health and wellness seminars and workshops, weekly virtual happy hours with DJ