WHO WE ARE

VerticalScope (TSE: FORA) operates one of the 10 largest community platforms in the US. Our platform includes over 1,000 websites and 100 million monthly visitors. Our mission is to enable the world to share expertise and discover knowledge on subjects they love. We operate at the intersection of community, content, and commerce, and believe in the power of enthusiasts to inform and inspire.

Position Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you are excited to be working at the center of nearly every application, tool, and service we use to create a great experience for both our customers and developers. You are motivated by high quality and confidence in availability and stability. You understand the pipelines a build goes through until it reaches production and can help monitor and improve quality metrics throughout.

The position is remote friendly (anywhere in Canada), with the option to work from our office in Toronto.

Key Responsibilities

- Work with cross-functional teams to operate and grow a world-class portfolio of businesses

- Work across several popular web properties including RedFlagDeals and VarageSale

- Identify areas of improvement in both the infrastructure and developer experience. Passionate about improving tooling, built systems, and stability.

- Standup, configure, and monitor infrastructure and the services within

- Coordinate and collaborate with development teams with their infrastructure needs

- Monitor and optimize cloud costs

- Securely grant access to new infrastructure

- Assist in programming tasks to allow general codebase to connect and interface with cloud infrastructure 

- Maintain and create runbooks for fast infrastructure response

- Communicate with stakeholders around changes and outages

Qualifications and Expertise

- 5 years DevOps/SRE hands-on experience, but if you’re awesome, we’re flexible!

- Lots of experience with GCP or AWS. You’re comfortable configuring, running, and managing services in either, and you know your way around Compute, Kubernetes, MySQL, Storage, DNS, etc.

- Monitoring & alerting solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Pagerduty.

- Managing access controls, permissions, and service accounts.

- Production level Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform experience.

- Maintaining build pipelines and deployment orchestrations.

- Knowledge of security practices, protocols, methodologies, procedures, and compliance

- Experience with GitOps workflows for changes to environments.

- Knowledge of load balancing and Nginx configurations.

- General linux and networking concepts including familiarity with Ubuntu and Docker.

Technology We Use

- Google Cloud Platform, specifically GCE, GKE, CloudSQL (MySQL), Storage

- Argo Projects (Workflows, CD, Events)

- RabbitMq/Kafka

- Docker

- Languages deployed: PHP, .NET, Ruby,, Python

- Cloudflare/Fastly

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LIFE AT VERTICALSCOPE

We believe that competitive benefits are an important investment in our people and culture. In addition to joining a passionate and collaborative team culture, your benefits and perks include:

Benefits:

- Full suite of health benefits (medical, dental, vision), including fertility options

- Retirement savings program and HSA/FSA programs

- Flexible working hours and unlimited vacation

- Parental leave top up pay

- Life insurance, long-term disability, AD&D

- Employee Stock Option Program (ESOP)

- Career development stipend

Perks:

- Employee referral bonus

- Employee discounts

- High-tech office space and remote work options

- Virtual social events

- Inclusive culture

EEO

Our company values diversity of thought and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We work on complex, difficult problems with no linear or clear solutions. We believe that a diverse team can bring different perspectives and approaches, and whose experiences reflect the full set of clients we seek to serve. As such, VerticalScope is committed to a diverse representation among our employees.

If you require disability-related accommodation during the application, recruitment, and interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to make all possible adjustments to suit your needs.