About the Team

At Sovrn, the Reliability team plays an integral role building and maintaining our low latency, high performance, scalable infrastructure. Reliability engineering focuses on enabling frameworks that  streamline full stack delivery using automation to increase feature velocity while meeting production service level commitments. This team is a key driver of the collaborative culture across engineering to enable product delivery across all of our applications. We focus to build and keep a high level of excellence, driving a culture of learning, positivity and humor, as well as mutual respect and humility in all that we do.

About the Job

Through our publishers, Sovrn Holdings reaches over 200 million people every day, generating over 10 billion HTTP requests daily. These requests must be processed in low milliseconds and result in several petabytes of data on a monthly basis. The exciting technical problems we solve require a world class team and engineering culture to deliver against our mission.

Sovrn is currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineer I to play a critical and integral role building and maintaining our low latency, high performance, scalable infrastructure. As a Site Reliability Engineer at Sovrn you will perform hands-on engineering for full stack provisioning “DevOps” automation. Reliability engineering includes deployment pipelines, software configuration management, infrastructure configuration management, containerization frameworks, monitoring and performance engineering. The goal of Reliability engineering is to streamline full stack delivery using automation in order to increase velocity of new features while meeting production service levels commitments. This role is a key participant in the culture to create a collaborative partnership across software, data, reliability, and quality engineering to enable the delivery and service management flows. The engineer should have experience aiding teams through DevOps transformation, implementation, and sustaining activities.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Understanding of DevOps trends. Participation in community activities a plus.
• Learning new tech and new ways to apply what you already know.
• Support operational delivery and execution of key Sovrn applications.
• Participate in planning and execution for full stack provisioning automation (ie continuous integration/deployment, software configuration, infrastructure configuration, and monitoring).
• Assist in providing estimates to determine the level of effort required for the technical implementation of solutions.
• Assist in the implementation of automation and tools to speed incident resolution, reduce production issues, and manage production change with minimal business disruption.
• Discover and provide best practice use for cloud services and tools.
• Develop software, integration, and tools needed to achieve reliability goals and automation to reduce toil.
• Troubleshoot systemic issues and assist in creating improvements.
• Documenting research, solutions, and patterns.

About You

You are a naturally curious person who likes to learn. You enjoy being part of a collaborative team but are also independently responsible. Technical challenges and solving problems with your team to make better software gets you excited. Firm believer that the engineering team owns the quality of the product and works with this in mind. You want to automate all the things so you can spend more time learning tech and on what matters most. 

The successful candidate will have:

• IT automation / System Administration experience.
• Familiarity with linux operating system.
• Comfortable with scripting and bash command line tools.
• Understanding of DevOps and Reliability engineering.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and handling critical issues.
• A creative yet analytical mindset with problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to understand business domain and translate to reliability services.
• Ability to efficiently multi-task and to work cooperatively and collaboratively at all levels.
• An endless curiosity towards learning.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with container management tools (Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate).
• Experience with automation configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.).
• Experience with Agile/JIRA.

This position reports to: Manager, Reliability Engineering

Location: Boulder, Colorado

We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable; and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of accountability impact, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We expect you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we're looking for.

About Sovrn

Publishers create the content the world depends on for education, entertainment, and commerce. Sovrn provides products and services to tens of thousands of online publishers to help them grow, operate their business, understand their readership, and manage consumer data. Sovrn is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. 

With 10,000 customers deploying one or more products across 30,000 websites, Sovrn reaches 200M consumers across more than 3.5B pageviews everyday. Sovrn has been a leader in online publisher technology since its founding, and has been recognized by IAB, JICWEBS, and TAG for its role in combating advertising fraud and promoting pro-transparency initiatives. Sovrn is dedicated to helping content creators do more of what they love, and less of what they don’t.

Sovrn Core Values: Candid, Customer Empathy, Learning, Scrappy, Second Order Thinking

Compensation and Benefits

In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate compensation range for this role in Boulder, Colorado is $70,000 to $100,000, including base salary and any related bonuses or commissions. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills and certifications.

Sovrn offers a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental and vision coverage, short and long term disability, life insurance,11 paid holidays, flexible vacation, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, and a paid parental leave program.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Sovrn is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations will be made to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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