Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer at Viant, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, implementing, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Leveraging your extensive experience, you'll lead initiatives to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance across our multi-cloud environments. Your contributions will be instrumental in driving our platform's evolution and ensuring seamless integration with our development and operations teams.

• Architect & Lead: Design and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS and GCP platforms.
• Automation & Tooling: Develop and maintain advanced automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management, promoting a culture of DevOps and continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to align infrastructure strategies with business objectives.
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, conduct root cause analyses, and implement preventive measures to mitigate future risks.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact and applicability to Viant's infrastructure.

• Experience: Minimum of 7 years in cloud reliability, DevOps, or SRE roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or senior engineering position.
• Cloud Expertise: Proficient in managing and optimizing services within AWS and GCP environments.
• Infrastructure as Code: Extensive experience with Terraform, including module development and orchestration.
• Containerization: Deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment and management of containerized applications.
• Scripting & Programming: Strong skills in languages such as Python or Go, with the ability to develop complex automation scripts and tools.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Monitoring & Logging: Expertise in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or equivalent.
• Database Knowledge: Familiarity with SQL and experience working with data warehouses like Google BigQuery.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership abilities, with a proactive and collaborative mindset.

• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or equivalent.
• Multi-Cloud Optimization: Familiarity with managing cost, performance, and compliance across multi-cloud environments.
• Community Engagement: Contributions to open source projects or active participation in DevOps/cloud-native communities.

• Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the BEST PLACES TO WORK!
• Some our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more. View a list of our benefits here.

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About Viant

Viant Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: DSP) is a leader in CTV and AI-powered programmatic advertising, dedicated to driving innovation in digital marketing. Viant’s omnichannel platform built for CTV allows marketers to plan, execute and measure their campaigns with unmatched precision and efficiency. With the launch of ViantAI, Viant is building the future of fully autonomous advertising solutions, empowering advertisers to achieve their boldest goals. Viant was recently awarded Best AI-Powered Advertising Solution and Best Demand-Side Platform by MarTech Breakthrough, Great Place to Work® certification and received the Business Intelligence Group’s AI Excellence Award. Learn more at viantinc.com.

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