Senior Platform Engineer (Remote / Contract)

Verve

2d • Remote

About The Position

Verve is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their DevOps team. This is a contract role that can be worked remotely from anywhere in the US or outside of the US. The engineer will be responsible for owning and optimizing the growing infrastructure, collaborating with the US-based engineering team during their business hours. The company focuses on creating a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising, with solutions trusted by top advertisers and publishers globally.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience
• Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments (GKE)
• Strong Terraform skills — module authoring and IaC architecture, not just usage
• Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design at scale
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security across GCP
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems

Nice To Haves

• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture
• Willingness to learn the industry on the job

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), establishing reusable patterns and enforcing standards across teams
• Architect, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) with a focus on reliability, security, and developer experience
• Design and maintain Helm charts for applications and services across multiple environments
• Drive platform reliability — owning scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategy (load balancing, auto-scaling, multi-region resilience)
• Define and implement observability standards across metrics, logging, and tracing (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
• Serve as a technical lead during incidents on primary revenue-generating applications, owning resolution and contributing to post-mortems
• Mentor engineers across the team and act as a trusted advisor to development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform adoption
• Contribute to the team’s on-call rotation with a proactive, systems-thinking approach

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed