About the role

Role: Senior Platform Engineer (Remote / Contract)

Join Verve’s DevOps team to take ownership of a growing infrastructure platform. This is a contract position with remote work available anywhere in the US (and also outside the US), with collaboration during US business hours.

Responsibilities

Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
Design and implement infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), creating reusable patterns and enforcing standards
Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines with a reliability/security/developer-experience focus using:
- GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
Design and maintain Helm charts for applications/services across multiple environments
Drive platform reliability, including scalability, availability, and disaster recovery (load balancing, auto-scaling, multi-region resilience)
Define and implement observability standards across metrics/logging/tracing using:
- Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry
Serve as a technical lead during incidents, owning resolution for primary revenue-generating applications and contributing to post-mortems
Mentor engineers and advise development teams on infrastructure, security standards, and platform adoption
Participate in on-call rotation with a proactive, systems-thinking approach

Requirements

7+ years of platform/infrastructure/DevOps engineering experience
Strong, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, specifically GKE
Strong Terraform skills (module authoring and IaC architecture, not only usage)
Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design at scale
Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security, specifically GCP
Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems

Nice to Have

Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture
Willingness to learn the advertising industry on the job

About Verve

Verve is a privacy-focused advertising technology company that helps advertisers and publishers buy and monetize ads more efficiently. It operates an ecosystem of demand- and supply-side technologies combining data, media, and platform integrations to deliver measurable results across screens and geographies.