Senior DevOps Engineer at MNTN

<div class="content-intro"><p>At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all <em data-stringify-type="italic">really</em> love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2025.)</p> <p>We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social, helping brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting <a href="https://mountain.com/">https://mountain.com/</a>.</p> <p>We’re committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great.</p> <p>So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This position is on the DevOps team, supporting the MNTN platform and Engineers. The right person will not only have a deep knowledge of system administration and GCP, but will also be able to work with a variety of Developers. You will work closely with our Engineering team and help meet the service's requirements.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design, provision, and manage infrastructure primarily on <strong>Google Cloud (GKE) and other cloud environments</strong>, with Kubernetes as the core platform abstraction. Work directly with engineering counterparts on the design and implementation of cloud-based infrastructure solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build platform capabilities, internal developer portal (IDP) components, and self-service tooling that reduces friction for engineers and standardizes how services run in production.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design and build automations and infrastructure tooling with GitOps as a fundamental principle, integrating with APIs, cloud SDKs, and Kubernetes components.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions), ensuring safe, observable, and repeatable deployments across environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with engineering teams to define scalable infrastructure patterns, reusable modules, and cost-efficient solutions based on usage and growth requirements.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monitor infrastructure spend and contribute to cost analysis, optimization, and FinOps practices to improve cloud efficiency.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Improve observability, alerting, SLOs, and runbooks to strengthen reliability and incident response.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Implement cloud security and compliance best practices, including IAM design, workload identity, secrets management, and container security standards.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What success looks like</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensures our Kubernetes platform runs predictably and resiliently in production, with fewer incidents, faster recovery, and strong operational discipline across environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Delivers meaningful improvements to developer experience by increasing automation, expanding self-service capabilities, reducing friction, and earning high trust and satisfaction from engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Continuously enhances platform standards, automation, and cost governance - improving infrastructure safety, consistency, security, and efficiency.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll bring</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with strong production experience in <strong>GCP and Kubernetes (GKE)</strong>. Experience with additional cloud providers is a plus.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proficient in using AI tools to accelerate research and coding workflows, with the ability to critically evaluate outputs, verify accuracy, and apply results responsibly.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong automation skills, programming and scripting in Python and Typescript, including working with APIs, SDKs, and CLIs.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience operating Kubernetes in production, including Helm, ArgoCD, operators, Kustomize, networking, autoscaling, and RBAC.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep expertise in Terraform / OpenTofu and infrastructure-as-code best practices; experience designing reusable modules and managing multi-environment deployments. Terragrunt is a plus.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience supporting hybrid or multi-cloud deployments where appropriate.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Solid understanding of cost modeling, tagging strategies, and cloud cost optimization techniques (FinOps awareness a plus).</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with microservices architectures, service discovery, and containerization workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A platform mindset: you’ve built tools, abstractions, or paved roads that improve developer velocity and system reliability.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong communication skills and a habit of clear, useful documentation.</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>MNTN Perks</strong></p> <ul> <li>100% remote within the US</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Flexible vacation policy</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses</li> <li>Three-day weekend every month of the year</li> <li>Competitive compensation</li> <li>100% healthcare coverage</li> <li>401k plan</li> <li>Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care</li> <li>Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development</li> </ul> <p><strong>About MNTN</strong></p> <p>Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you’re contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">that ain’t us folks.&nbsp;</em>Tell those trolls to take a hike–you’re waiting to climb a MNTN.</p> <p>MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.</p> <p>Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including Tarte, Decked, and National University.</p> <p>#LI-Remote</p></div>