Position: SRE BigData
Company: Pulsepoint
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Would you like to work with cutting edge high load/high availability infrastructure with low operational overhead, build and support a solution serving 200B expressions daily, which is 1.3P of raw data, know how we leverage Alluxio and Hadoop interacting with Trino, Hive and Impala? Then click :)

**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.

**What you’ll be doing:**
- Deploying, configuring, monitoring and maintaining multiple big data stores, across multiple datacenters. Perform planning, configuration, deployment and maintenance work relevant to the environment. Managing the large-scale Linux infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime. 
- Developing and documenting system configuration standards and procedures. 
- 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. 

**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**
- Multi-faceted Alluxio and Hadoop understanding, including the Kerberos, for data storage and Trino, Hive, and Impala for data retrieval.
- Experience managing Kafka clusters on Linux.
- Thorough understanding of Linux (we use CentOS in production). 
- Experience administering SQL/NoSQL databases (we use MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Any scripting language (Python/Ruby/Shell etc). 
- Understanding of basic networking concepts (TCP/IP stack, DNS, CDN, load balancing).

**Bonus, but not required:**
- Ability to work with Cassandra cluster from installation through troubleshooting and maintenance. 
- Puppet configuration management tool. 
- Experience with scalable infrastructure monitoring solutions such as Icinga, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana and ELK.
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. 
- Train/mentor junior-level staff. 
- Experience in AdTech or High-Frequency Trading.
- Experience with Security-related best practices