Senior Systems Engineer

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for the advertising industry and we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to help us grow IT infrastructure, automate workloads, and pursue next-generation innovation in a multi-cloud environment.  This is a daytime role is based in our new Sydney office, working on a hybrid basis. If you are excited by technology that has the power to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second; collect tens of billions of events each day; and evaluate thousands of data-points in real-time all while responding in just a few milliseconds, then IAS is the place for you!

The ideal candidate possesses expert knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes, and Cloud systems and a firm grasp of the layers involved in a complex, high-throughput, and low-latency environment. The candidate will use that knowledge in troubleshooting, optimizing, and automating as much as possible, immediately impacting the day-to-day efficiency of IT operations.

What you’ll get to do:

• Support all IAS production systems by participating in a global on-call rotation.
• Capacity planning and growing the infrastructure to handle increasing traffic
• Develop custom monitoring and automation scripts and modules
• Work with developers to optimize applications and infrastructure
• Documenting architecture and solutions

You should apply if you have most of this:

• 5+ years of Linux/Kubernetes system experience (software, hardware, network troubleshooting, optimizing systems for low latency and high throughput).
• Coding ability in Bash and Perl, Python, Ruby, or similar
• Experience utilizing Amazon Web Services and utilizing Infrastructure as Code.
• Automating administration tasks, configuration management (Puppet, Terraform and Cloud Formation), and monitoring
• Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary Agile teams of developers, data scientists, Client Services, and Product Owners.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventative measures.
• BS in Computer Science/related degree or equivalent experience

Desired Skills: 

• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
• Knowledge of DataBricks
• Knowledge of one or more database technologies MySQL, Snowflake, Postgres
• Network and systems security and optimization
• Knowledge of the Microservices Architecture

What puts you over the top:

• Familiarity with administration and use of Grafana Cloud, Zabbix, Kafka, Spark Stream
• Ability to debug Java/Tomcat and Python applications
• AWS Certification

About Integral Ad Science

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. IAS makes every impression count, ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, in safe and suitable environments, activating contextual targeting, and driving supply path optimization.

Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world’s leading brands, publishers, and platforms. We do this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, IAS works with thousands of top advertisers and premium publishers worldwide. For more information, visit integralads.com or email us at careers@integralads.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

IAS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community, people with disabilities and veterans to apply.

To learn more about us, please visit http://integralads.com/ and https://muse.cm/2t8eGlN

Attention agency/3rd party recruiters: IAS does not accept any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles. If you are interested in becoming an IAS recruiting partner, please send an email introducing your company to recruitingagencies@integralads.com. We will get back to you if there's interest in a partnership.