Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Home to the iconic Ask.com website and headquartered in Oakland’s thriving downtown, Ask Media Group is a collection of websites that help curious people find the information they need. Our growing portfolio of websites helps our users discover everything from bathrobes to tax forms, and we thrive on the challenge of developing a wide variety of sites that address everyday questions, no matter how large or small. Our team knows how to not only create but profitably grow digital properties to meaningful scale, touching the lives of millions of people each day. Ask Media Group is owned and operated by IAC (NASDAQ: IAC).

The Opportunity

We are looking for a curious and enthusiastic senior engineer who loves scripting automation. You’ll join a team of experienced engineers who are responsible for public cloud infrastructure, implementing DevSecOps governance, and developing solutions for the challenges that arise in a dynamic, fast-paced, multi-cloud environment using a mix of open source and SaaS offerings.  

What You’ll Do: 

• Partner with team members to define architectural and operational aspects of infrastructure support
• Collaborate with engineering teams to scale cloud programs, and plan and create workflow processes by defining best practices
• Leverage your strong communication skills and cross-functional experience to tackle projects that include data from various intake sources, which you’ll massage, manipulate, and deliver via automation for remediation

What You Bring to Us: 

Qualities

• Intellectually curious and ready to learn and apply new technologies
• Self-starter that makes things happen, and you take ownership of tasks and projects
• Able to recognize patterns and redefine the problem statement
• Flexible and switch context when needed, but don’t lose sight of the original objective
• Pragmatic and you choose simplicity over complexity
• Able to think incrementally when delivering big projects
• Team player that collaborates on projects and value others’ contributions
  

Technical Skills

• 6+ years’ managing services in an enterprise public cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• 4+ years’ managing Kubernetes and it’s underlying infrastructure
• 4+ years’ supporting a platform for monitoring, logging, and orchestration of docker applications running on Kubernetes
• 4+ years’ working with infrastructure as code and/or configuration management tools like  Terraform, receiving, and providing code reviews
• Ability to drive technical innovation in operations via automation
• Systems operation and administration experience with Linux and/or containers

Bonus Points:

• Hands-on experience with scripting/programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Go, etc.)
• Passionate about security in a public cloud environment 
• Some experience with CDN/WAF platforms (i.e. Fastly, Akamai or AWS)
• Some experience with observability services (i.e. logging and monitoring)

Company Culture

As an organization, we value transparency, collaboration, learning, and collegiality. We are passionate about learning and doing our best. Sometimes we fail, but we learn from these failures. All the while, we believe that maintaining work-life balance and having fun is the key to our success.

Salary & Benefits

The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $170,000 annually. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Ask Media Group’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards include annual bonuses, and short and long-term incentives. 

In addition, Ask Media Group provides a variety of benefits to employees, including a remote work model, flexible paid time off for salaried employees, health insurance coverage, a generous 401K employer matching program, tuition reimbursement, charity gift matching, free Care.com membership + subsidized rates for childcare, pet insurance, and more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity 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.