Sr. DevOps Engineer

Do you want to work for one of the biggest consulting companies in Spain, working more than 12 hours a day and not having a life? We don’t either. So come and be part of a cool worldwide company, building things that matter to a real business, learning and making an impact while also enjoying your life. Our motto is: "Life before work".

At mediasmart, we are looking for a Senior DevOps/SRE to join our team, whose main function will be to develop for the main products we offer to users: the API and the web frontend

About mediasmart

mediasmart is part of the Affle group - a global adtech company thatcompleted its successful IPO in India in 2019 and has been growing profitably since. Affle group has been in the adtech/martech business for over 15 years and runs multiple ad platform businesses including Appnext, MAAS, mDMP, Jampp, RevX, Vizury, Youappi in addition to mediasmart.

Some of the key investors in Affle Holdings include Microsoft and D2C (JV between NTT DoCoMo & Dentsu).

At mediasmart, our mission is to allow advertisers to effectively reach audiences across their digital journeys in real time, while maximizing engagement with campaigns and their incremental value to advertisers. mediasmart was one of the first players to enter the programmatic mobile ecosystem and to date our proprietary technology stack includes a DSP, DMP & Ad-Server, as well as direct connections to more than 30 ad exchanges where we buy display, video and native ads on mobile apps, Connected TVs, DOOH and desktop.

The mediasmart business is headquartered in Spain having fast growing global teams across APAC, LATAM in addition to Europe. 

Our culture and values

• Be a generous team player. One that helps others succeed and celebrate their success.
• Love curiosity. Keep learning and stay relevant.
• It’s a team effort. Collaborate and cooperate to build a smart company.
• Go farther. Be an example for others. Set the bar.
• Love what we do. Love our work with passion and respect.
• Do good and do well. Our work matters.

We work hard and never forget to have fun in the process. Absolutely devoted to our customers and to building the best mobile advertising company out there, our passion shines through everything we do.

Summary & Duties

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer, you will be a key player in scaling and refining a high-performance programmatic advertising platform. You won’t just maintain servers; you will evolve an elastic, global infrastructure that handles massive traffic peaks with millisecond precision.

You will work in constant collaboration with our local Engineering teams and the Global DevOps unit, ensuring that our platform's stability and scalability remain world-class while we iterate on our deployment velocity.

• Automate tasks such as application configuration and deployment.
• Contribute to the technical decision-making process to define the platform strategy.
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Apply DevOps methodologies with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Engage in upcoming projects’ infrastructure to ensure scalability and fault tolerance.
• Maintain high availability during traffic spikes, disasters, and malicious attacks.
• Work closely with the software development team to ensure systems are monitored 24x7.
• Review and drive continuous improvement initiatives across the platform, optimizing infrastructure, processes, and system and product performance.
• Collaborate with different Business Units across Affle Group to improve methodologies, processes, and technical best practices.

Requirements

• Strong Linux knowledge and troubleshooting skills in production environments.
• Solid experience working with Cloud platforms, especially AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure and configuration as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Scripting experience with Bash for automation and operational tasks.
• Experience managing high-volume and highly available services.
• Knowledge of networking concepts, monitoring systems, and database administration.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
• Availability to participate in on-call rotations to support production environments and after-hours incidents.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish, both written and spoken, to collaborate effectively with global teams.

Desirable requirements

• Experience with programming languages such as JavaScript/ Node.js or Python.
• Knowledge of low-latency systems and distributed architectures (AdTech RTB, Trading platforms, etc.).
• Understanding of security, privacy, and compliance best practices for Operating Systems and Cloud Services.

Skills

• Analytical, curious, goal-oriented
• Strong orientation to detail, with an ability to collect and organize data, understand the results, and communicate them effectively
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to motivate others to work as a team to meet the business case and customer goal
• Being proactive
• Ability to take personal initiative and prioritize workload whilst being a team player within a collaborative environment

Other perks of the job

• Flexible working hours
• To be part of a small team with direct impact in the final product
• Using state of the art technologies
• Educational resources
• Creative Fridays: one day every two weeks to work on your own ideas