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
At VerticalScope, we are reimagining the future of online communities. This is a great opportunity for an energetic Senior DevOps Engineer to join a talented team, enabling many of the most visited sites and forums in North America such as RedFlagDeals.com. You will ensure a scalable, reliable, and observable platform, serving over four million users monthly. This role requires a blend of expertise in infrastructure design, automation, cloud technologies (specifically Google Cloud and Kubernetes), and software development. You will report to the Director of Engineering in a flat organization and collaborate with five engineers in a close-knit team.
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 and you can work anywhere in Canada except Quebec.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a mission-focused public company with a startup mentality.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with engineering and operations teams to 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.
- 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 the general codebase to connect and interface with cloud infrastructure
- Maintain and create playbooks for fast infrastructure response
- Communicate with stakeholders about any changes and outages
- Be on-call on a week-long schedule, rotating with five other engineers. The on-call schedule is subject to change
- Other related responsibilities and ad hoc projects as negotiated and needed to meet the ongoing needs of the company
Qualifications and Expertise
- 7+ years DevOps or site reliability engineering 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
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.
What We Do
VerticalScope is a technology company that has built and operates a cloud-based digital community platform for online enthusiast communities. Our social community and websites are vertically integrated roll-ups in high-consumer spending verticals. The resultant audience aggregation places many of our verticals within the Top 5 of ComScore Media Metrix for their respective category.
We leverage our deep in-house expertise in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Internet marketing, and traffic acquisition to build highly targeted, successful online communities and websites. Our arsenal of tools includes a significant portfolio of irreplaceable, generic domain names we have acquired over the past decade. These domains drive organic type-in traffic to our web properties resulting in hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts arriving at our network every month by means of direct navigation.
Through targeted acquisitions and development, VerticalScope has built a portfolio of more than 1200+ websites with more than 25 million aggregate pages of content and more than 101 Million active users per month - and growing.
VerticalScope Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, race, citizenship, ethnic origin, place of origin, creed, disability, family or marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or any other protected ground or social area according to Human Rights laws in Canada.
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.
