Senior DevOps

About Premion

Premion, a division of Tegna, is a leading product-based company providing innovative programmatic advertising solutions. Premion empowers media companies, brands, and agencies to seamlessly plan, buy, optimize, and measure advertising campaigns across Connected TV (CTV), OTT, and digital platforms.

Premion reported approximately $200 million in revenue in 2023, reflecting its strong market position in the rapidly growing CTV/OTT advertising ecosystem. The company continues to invest in scalable, cloud-native platforms to support high-throughput, real-time advertising systems.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code to design, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience operating Kubernetes workloads in production, building CI/CD pipelines, and implementing monitoring and security best practices. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to work in fast-paced, distributed environments.

You will play a key role in ensuring platform reliability, automation maturity, and production stability across cloud-native microservices systems.

What Youll Do

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins to enable automated and reliable deployments.
• Deploy, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters in production, including:

1.Cluster architecture and setup

2.Deployments, services, ingress controllers

3.Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

4.ConfigMaps and Secrets management

5.Troubleshooting production workloads

• Implement containerization strategies using Docker and manage microservices-based architectures.
• Set up and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes-native monitoring tools.
• Design and manage API traffic handling using REST, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, API Gateway, and load-balancing strategies.
• Ensure infrastructure and application security best practices including OWASP compliance, static code analysis, and container security.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, outages, and scaling challenges in production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data, and security teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering roles.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services in production environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes administration and production operations.
• Strong experience with Docker and cloud-native microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language: Python, Go, or Shell scripting.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB).
• Strong Linux fundamentals and system-level troubleshooting skills.
• Understanding of infrastructure and application security best practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS data services such as DMS, Glue, Athena, or Redshift.
• Experience working in start-up or high-growth environments.
• Experience collaborating with distributed / remote teams.
• Exposure to advanced observability, performance tuning, or cost optimization strategies.