Turn Inc. (turn.com) is the smart platform for digital advertising. Our mission is to deliver the most effective data-driven advertising in the world. Our focus is to create deep customer intimacy between the marketer and their targeted audiences while delivering outstanding results. Turn is powered by its real-time media buying and optimization platform that delivers custom audiences at scale, exceptional performance, and insightful analytics to advertising agencies and premium brand advertisers across all quality inventory sources. We are headquartered in Redwood City, California and we have locations in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Charlotte. Turn is privately funded by Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Shasta Ventures, and Focus Ventures.
Our employees work hard and play hard and are delivering year over year hyper growth. Weve created great working environments for our employees. We value creativity, leadership, innovation, collaboration, initiative, honesty, integrity and customer service. Our employees drive the success of our company. If you would like to be part of a winning team, please submit your resume to jobs@turn.com.
As part of the Operations Group, the Application Operations Specialist will be a vital part of keeping our production operations running smoothly. This senior engineer / architect level contributor will be equally at home doing systems design or creating operational procedures and . This person will join our team as the key member responsible for maintaining operational integrity of our application production environment, troubleshooting, and improving our overall production system to increase scalability and reliability of the product platform.
The App Opp Specialist will communicate with members of the Engineering team on changes, notifications and requests for production changes, as well as the QA team on coordinating releases and maintaining high availability during transitions.
The successful candidate for this position will be an experienced developer who is motivated by hands-on guidance of a production system, enjoys script writing and documentation of systems and processes, and has the technical programming background and diplomatic communication skills to interface with the Engineering and Platform groups to affect change, troubleshoot and improve technical bottlenecks and synchronize engineering activities.
Primary Job Duties include:
Maintain and grow the operational infrastructure along with business growth. Technical thought leader and experienced developer.
Primary, on-call shift responsibility for system architecture components, responding to incidents, troubleshooting problems, and communicating complex application flow concepts to rest of organization in an understandable way.
Using data, metrics, monitoring and alerting mechanisms to establish a baseline and improve on it.
Work with other Operations sysadmins to maintain tools, instrumentation, monitoring, and scripts in operational state
Requirements and expectations:
BS in Computer Science or Engineering from a top tier engineering school.
5 – 8 years industry experience preferred.
3 – 5 years sysadmin experience with Linux / Unix servers, shell scripting.
Demonstrated ability to maintain complex system architecture in production environment.
Excellent written documentation and verbal communication skills.
Proactive leader; get it done mentality, while following change control methods and processes.
Willingness to learn, be challenged, and have fun in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Strongly desired: prior application programming experience in C, C++, or Java.
Prior QA experience a plus.
Excellent troubleshooting skills, a creative and methodical thinker
This position offers a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, and other comprehensive benefits.
For immediate consideration, please send us your resume and cover letter to jobs@turn.com. Please put Application Operations Specialist” in the subject field. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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