Operations Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Platform Monitoring and Reliability

• Monitor the health and performance of EDM’s advertiser, publisher, broker, and internal platforms.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and system-health dashboards.
• Investigate platform outages, degraded performance, failed transactions, delayed data, and integration errors.
• Respond to production incidents and coordinate resolutions with the appropriate engineers and vendors.
• Perform root-cause analysis and document corrective and preventive actions.
• Help maintain defined uptime, response-time, recovery-time, and system-reliability targets.
• Identify recurring problems and recommend permanent solutions.

Cloud Infrastructure and Systems Operations

• Maintain and support cloud infrastructure, servers, databases, networks, storage, and production environments.
• Support development, staging, and production environments.
• Assist with infrastructure scaling, system upgrades, patching, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Monitor cloud usage and help control infrastructure and technology costs.
• Maintain access controls, service accounts, certificates, domain configurations, and environment variables.
• Ensure production systems are properly documented and recoverable.

Deployment and Release Support

• Support safe and consistent application deployments.
• Maintain or improve continuous integration and deployment workflows.
• Coordinate release schedules, deployment validation, rollback procedures, and post-release monitoring.
• Help engineering teams identify configuration or infrastructure problems before releases reach production.
• Maintain deployment documentation, technical checklists, and change logs.
• Reduce manual deployment work through automation.

API and Integration Support

• Monitor and troubleshoot third-party APIs, webhooks, postbacks, dialer connections, CRM integrations, payment systems, tracking platforms, and compliance services.
• Investigate failed lead deliveries, missing postbacks, duplicate records, delayed reporting, and authentication problems.
• Support ping-post, real-time bidding, call-routing, SIP, and data-transfer workflows.
• Work with advertisers, publishers, and vendors to diagnose technical integration problems.
• Create clear documentation for common integration methods and troubleshooting procedures.
• Develop alerts that identify integration failures before clients report them.

Call and Lead Operations

• Monitor call-routing, tracking, recording, attribution, and disposition systems.
• Investigate calls that fail to route, connect, record, track, or report correctly.
• Support number provisioning, routing rules, caps, schedules, geographic restrictions, buyer availability, and failover logic.
• Validate that leads, calls, and transactions are properly attributed to the correct advertiser, publisher, campaign, and payout.
• Assist with discrepancies involving call duration, billable events, conversions, payouts, and reporting.
• Help protect revenue by identifying technical leakage and delivery failures.

Data and Reporting Support

• Monitor data pipelines, scheduled jobs, reporting processes, and database performance.
• Investigate discrepancies between platform reporting, billing records, payment records, and third-party systems.
• Write and maintain database queries for troubleshooting, validation, and operational reporting.
• Assist with data corrections using controlled and documented procedures.
• Support dashboards and operational alerts for revenue, margin, consumption, conversion, and platform activity.
• Maintain appropriate controls around production data access and modification.

Security and Access Management

• Support role-based access controls, multifactor authentication, audit logging, encryption, and secure system configuration.
• Provision and remove employee, contractor, client, and vendor access.
• Monitor suspicious activity and report potential security incidents.
• Assist with vulnerability remediation, security reviews, access audits, and incident-response procedures.
• Protect consumer, advertiser, publisher, employee, and company information.
• Follow company policies for credentials, production access, sensitive data, and change management.

Automation and Process Improvement

• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts, workflows, APIs, and infrastructure tools.
• Reduce manual work associated with monitoring, deployments, reporting, reconciliation, onboarding, and support.
• Build internal tools that improve visibility and response times.
• Identify operational bottlenecks that affect revenue, margin, client satisfaction, or employee productivity.
• Maintain clear runbooks and standard operating procedures for recurring technical tasks.

Technical Support and Documentation

• Serve as an escalation point for complex platform and integration issues.
• Translate technical problems into clear explanations for nontechnical teams.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, system inventories, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and incident reports.
• Track incidents and technical requests through completion.
• Document known issues, temporary workarounds, permanent resolutions, and system dependencies.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for urgent production incidents.

First 90-Day Priorities

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Learn EDM’s platforms, infrastructure, integrations, call-routing systems, reporting processes, and revenue workflows.
• Document critical systems, dependencies, credentials ownership, vendor contacts, and escalation procedures.
• Review existing monitoring, alerting, backups, access controls, and deployment procedures.
• Establish baseline metrics for uptime, incident volume, response time, recovery time, deployment success, and integration failures.
• Resolve high-priority recurring production and integration issues.
• Improve alerting for call-routing failures, API errors, delayed data, failed jobs, and reporting discrepancies.
• Create runbooks for the company’s most common and highest-risk technical incidents.
• Identify at least three meaningful automation or cost-saving opportunities.
• Participate in production support and demonstrate ownership of incidents through resolution.

Performance Expectations

Success will be measured by:

• Platform uptime and reliability
• Mean time to acknowledge and resolve incidents
• Reduction in recurring production problems
• Deployment success and rollback rates
• API, postback, webhook, and call-routing reliability
• Reporting and data accuracy
• Backup and recovery readiness
• Quality of technical documentation
• Security and access-control compliance
• Reduction in manual operational work
• Infrastructure costs relative to platform volume
• Responsiveness to internal teams, clients, and technical partners

Required Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in operations engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, systems administration, or production support.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience supporting Linux-based production environments.
• Working knowledge of networking, DNS, SSL certificates, firewalls, load balancing, and application security.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience troubleshooting REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, and third-party integrations.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-management tools.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, JavaScript, or PowerShell.
• Understanding of source control, deployment pipelines, and release management.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize incidents based on business and revenue impact.
• Availability to participate in an on-call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in ad-tech, mar-tech, affiliate marketing, lead generation, pay-per-call, telecommunications, or SaaS.
• Familiarity with SIP, VoIP, dialers, call-tracking platforms, routing systems, and phone-number provisioning.
• Experience with containers, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment tools.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with payment processing, usage-based billing, reconciliation, and commission systems.
• Experience working with real-time bidding, ping-post, lead distribution, or high-volume transactional systems.
• Understanding of TCPA-related controls, consent records, DNC suppression, data privacy, or regulated marketing environments.
• Experience with security audits, disaster-recovery testing, and compliance documentation.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate:

• Takes ownership instead of waiting for someone else to fix the problem.
• Remains calm and methodical during high-impact incidents.
• Understands the difference between applying a temporary fix and eliminating a root cause.
• Communicates technical problems clearly and directly.
• Recognizes that production reliability is a business and revenue responsibility.
• Automates repetitive work whenever practical.
• Documents systems so the company is not dependent on one person’s memory.
• Protects security and stability without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Is comfortable working in a fast-moving entrepreneurial environment.
• Can manage competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail.

Skills

User Experience (UX) Design