DevOps Engineer

A bit about us

GroundTruth is a media platform that drives in-store visits and other real business results. Using observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, we create targeted advertising campaigns across all screens for advertisers. We then measure how consumers respond to the campaigns, including if they physically show up to a store location or website, to understand the real business results generated by a brand's advertising.

Learn more at groundtruth.com.

We believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and have been ranked one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work in 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2025! Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

• Increase velocity of engineering teams by creating/deploying new stacks, services, and automations
• Work on projects to improve tooling, efficiency, and standardize/automate approaches (DRY) for commonly-used stacks/services
• Manage user access to services/systems via tools such as AWS IAM, terraform, and saltstack
• Participate in on-call rotation to handle critical and/or service-impacting issues
• Seek pragmatic opportunities to improve our infrastructure, processes, and operational activities
• Plan, provision, operate, and monitor cloud infrastructure for multiple areas of the business that you support.
• Design and assist with development and integration of monitoring dashboards, alerting solutions, and devops tools.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering to plan feature releases and to monitor and support applications including cost analysis and controls.

• Experience working in a DevOps roles supporting Engineering teams
• 4 year degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of experience in software engineering OR 6+ years of experience in software development with no degree
• Experience working with multiple AWS technologies including IAM, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, EMR, Glue, or similar
• A maker mindset
• Experience working for a geographically distributed company
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and integration along with container and other microservice-related technologies
• Proficiency with Github, Github Actions, AWS CLI, and troubleshooting web services and distributed systems
• Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Bash/Shell, Go, Terraform (or other IaC tools)
• Experience with automation tools (Saltstack, Chef, Ansible)
• Experience with IaC tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience working with cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) preferably with multi-region tenancy
• Experience with linux administration
• Experience with shell scripting/cron
• Nice to have:
• Python3 coding experience (or similar)
• automation of cloud deployments/infra mgmt
• experience with containerization (docker, kubernetes, etc)
• experience with networking set up (on prem or virtual)
• experience with monitoring/alerting tools (e.g. cloudwatch alarms, graphite, prometheus, etc)

• Security focused: looking towards best practices such as the principle of least privilege in all tasks
• A believer in documentation
• A strong communicator
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong and proactive communicator
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one

• Not afraid to have fun!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To ensure your application is properly reviewed, we kindly ask that you submit your resume and optional cover letter through the designated application portal. Applications submitted via the "Contact Us" form on our website will not be considered.