DevOps Technical Lead

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world's most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases-within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

LiveRamp is looking for an experienced leader to head our DevOps team. This team is responsible for building, operating, and managing LiveRamp's cloud infrastructure. A blend of infrastructure skill sets makes this a cross-functional team which delivers the technology that powers our cloud based SaaS solution. Our projects range from working with leading edge cloud-native services to big data cloud infrastructure to reliability instrumentation and monitoring. This position will report into the Infrastructure Organization - which is part of Engineering - and partner closely with other technical leads across Engineering. It will be a mixture of hands-on technical work and team leadership work.

We're looking for someone that has technical breadth and depth in cloud infrastructure. You will act as a thought leader, mentor and facilitator, while offering guidance to technical teams on Google Cloud Platform and AWS Cloud Infrastructure tooling and best practices. In this role, you will have the opportunity to create industry best practices for deployment and management of custom built or off the shelf solutions in a public cloud environment.

You will:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Set clear objectives and goals for the team, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic priorities
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide feedback, and identify opportunities for professional growth
• Lead and provide subject matter expertise and Architectural patterns for Google Cloud Platform/AWS
• Architect and implement solutions to improve deployment process and CI/CD capabilities
• Promote an infrastructure-as-code philosophy, leveraging tools like Terraform, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Lead cloud improvements for availability, performance, observability, scalability, quality, and cost effectiveness.
• Lead and own creation of cloud focused best practices, building blocks, and patterns to ensure deployed solutions are scalable, immutable, and resilient
• Lead and collaborate with technical, application, and security leads to deliver a reliable and secure platform in Google Cloud Platform/AWS clouds
• Ensure cloud solutions are implemented and delivered with best practices, standards, appropriate controls, and thorough documentation
• Provide technical governance for infrastructure design, deployment, and operations
• Support a global engineering organization based in Boston, California, New York, Paris, London, and Nantong, China
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Your team will:

• Support an entire engineering organization based in California, New York, Paris, London, and Nantong, China
• Lead and collaborate with technical, application, and security leads to deliver a reliable and secure platform on Google Cloud Platform and AWS
• Lead the cloud improvements for availability, performance, observability, scalability, quality, and cost effectiveness
• Lead and own the creation of cloud-focused best practices, building blocks, and patterns to ensure deployed solutions are scalable, immutable, and resilient
• Function as stewards for shared data, services, tools, processes, and libraries.

About you:

• 7+ years of experience in the fields of DevOps, SRE, or production engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management position
• Experienced architecting complex cloud environments that leverage industry best practices
• Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications with Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, or the like
• Experienced with deployment and monitoring of highly scalable products
• Experienced with continuous integration and automation servers like Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling in the cloud like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Comfortable with shell scripting and fluent in at least one of Ruby, Java, or Go
• Experience with DevOps best practices, working knowledge of observability principles is a big plus
• Ability to lead and mentor other engineers in the team for DevOps best practices
• Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate routine tasks
• Experience with securing systems in a public cloud environment

Bonus Points:

• Enjoys working as part of a distributed team: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working, and productive
• Understands how to engage other engineering teams as customers

Benefits:

• People: work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• In-Office Food: enjoy catered meals, boundless snacks, and the occasional food truck.
• Fun: we host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, and sports leagues.
• Work/Life Harmony: flexible paid time off, remote work opportunities, and paid parental leave.
• Whole Health Package: medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance. Plus mental health support (via Talkspace) and fitness reimbursement.
• Savings: our 401K matching plan helps you plan ahead.
• Location: Work in any of our amazing US office locations! San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Little Rock.

More about us:

LiveRamp's mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles-one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.