NetOps Engineer

We are Outbrain.

We’re one of the world’s largest content recommendation platforms, delighting audiences with engaging, personalized content recommendations while serving as the primary engagement partner and platform for the world’s top digital media companies.

We are looking for..

A passionate and experienced team player with excellent interpersonal skills and service oriented to join our Cloud Infra team. You will be part of a talented group of professionals responsible for our core infrastructure, providing scalable solutions from concept and design to implementation.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Responsible for administrating and maintaining various infrastructure systems: Kubernetes, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Chef, Consul, Haproxy, DNS, CDNs and more.
• Provide self-serve tools for configuration management, CI automation and Infrastructure as Code for both our private and public cloud environments.
• Manage the base Linux OS configuration over 8000 servers and multiple types of systems and services.
• Build and maintain API backends.
• Continuously improve Outbrain’s infrastructure, ensuring its performance, scalability, high availability and observability.
• Join the team’s on-call rotation.

What you’ll Bring:

• At least 4 years of proven experience in a production environment as an SRE/Production/Devops engineer with strong troubleshooting skills.
• At least 5 years of experience with Linux based OS administration and Bash scripting.
• Advantage: experience with Docker and Kubernetes in large scale environments, on prem and cloud
• Experience in automating deployments using configuration and deployment management tools such as Chef, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform or others.
• Coding skills in one of the following: Python, Ruby or other languages.
• Experience using version control tools such as Git.
• Solid understanding of common Internet protocols such as: HTTP, DNS, SSL - an advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, out of the box thinker, independence, accountability and proactivity.
• Interest in the interaction between systems, bottlenecks and scale.

Personal Skills

• You have the ability to work independently and as a team player.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You have self-learning capabilities and eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Self-motivated with a real can-do attitude.

Our team believes that sometimes potential and capabilities come before experience. If you believe that your experience does not fully match our requirements but you think you are up for that challenge - attach a note to your CV and we promise to review it!

More than snacks!

• Office and home hybrid working: three days a week from the office and two from home
• Be part of our success with our equity program
• Wellbeing benefits like private health insurance.
• Expand your toolbox with our mentorship program and internal learning tools

We Recommend #LifeAtOutbrain

Outbrain is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Did you know "trust" is one of our core values? We apply this value to our day-to-day by working collaboratively on a global scale. With managers and teammates often sitting in other countries and time zones, we value communication, patience, and open-mindedness to all cultural backgrounds. We encourage all ideas, and everyone gets a seat at the table!

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups –employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change. From OB Green (environmental), OB WE (women empowerment), OB Good (charitable initiatives) to OB4E (diversity, equity, and inclusion), you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.

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