Company Description

Positioned at Publicis Groupe's core, Conversant is a marketing tech platform that helps brands transform ordinary customer experiences into meaningful, human experiences. The Conversant platform powers a connected suite of products and services called Epsilon PeopleCloud, combining leading-edge identity management, industrial-strength data and technology expertise with big brand acumen gained over five decades of working with the industry’s top brands. Our human-powered, data-led marketing delivers unmatched depth, breadth and scale to help brands create exceptional business outcomes. For more information, visit www.epsilon.com. Follow us on Twitter at @EpsilonMktg.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented, enthusiastic  DevOps Team Lead to join our team in Chicago. As a Devops Team Lead at Conversant you will manage workflow for a team of engineers utilizing Agile methodologies. This is a hands-on position so you will also be writing automation code and designing architecture that enables our production environment to process billions of ads transactions a day.  

Responsibilities

• Manage Sprint planning and coordination with Project Managers in multiple teams.
• Manage capacity upgrades and migrations for the production environment, both on-prem and AWS.
• Participate in the design and execution of significant platform architecture changes.
• Perform upgrade and administer OS, software development tool and web app server on various build system infrastructure servers.
• Collaborate with peers and external engineering teams in gathering software build and release deployment cycle requirements.
• Provide services and support to developers in infrastructure, maintaining CI/CD systems etc.
• Adhere to best software development standards and practices. And help to drive improvements to our build system scripts, tools and processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead small, multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of scaling issues relating to reverse-proxy solutions.
• Strong experience with Docker and cloud environments.
• Strong working knowledge of the continuous integration development process and experience with any well-known CI platforms.
• Demonstrated expertise in configuration management and orchestration tools for system and application configuration (ex. Puppet, Salt or Ansible).
• Experience working in hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Packer and Consul.
• Strong experience with Git Version Control System, including understanding of Git workflow strategies. Experience with management of Git services and Git-Enterprise a plus.
• Scripting / programming experience in one or more of the following technologies or other equivalent: Java, Python or Ruby
• Participate in engineering, deploying, and maintaining new solutions and services for internal customers.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux based operating systems. Redhat/CentOS preferred. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high level programming language such as C++, Scala, Perl
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment concepts and tools and technologies such as Bamboo, Make, Maven, Gradle, SBT, Node, NPM, RHEL/CentOS, postgres db, Nexus, Artifactory, Sonar, Git, JIRA, Confluence, Stash/Bitbucket, RPM
• Experience with configuration management orchestration tools (chef, ansible, salt, packer, terraform).
• Experience with containerization technology such as docker, docker-compose, docker swarm 

Additional Information

Great People, Deserve Great Benefits
We know that we have some of the brightest and most talented associates in the world, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, expect competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, and endless opportunities to advance your career.

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Epsilon’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.

Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process.