Senior DevOps Engineer

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners. Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements. You will: Design, build, deploy and optimize infrastructure of big data tools like streaming platform clusters(ex: kafka, Redpanda) and orchestration tools like Airflow, temporal on kubernetes and cloud. Implement and harden operational tooling for observability (metrics, logs, traces), incident detection, and automated remediation to reduce MTTR and improve system resilience. Maintain and enhance CI/CD tooling and terraform scripts to improve the efficiency of deployments and infra automation. Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enable repeatable, self-service environment creation for engineering teams. Lead and collaborate with technical, application, and security stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure Big Data infrastructure leveraging tools and platforms. Own and participate in on-call responsibilities for Big Data infrastructure, triaging and resolving incidents, responding to tickets, and ensuring systems consistently meet defined SLAs for availability, performance, and data quality. Mentor engineers on DevOps best practices, helping teams adopt platform capabilities, automation patterns, and operational standards Define and implement monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to provide end‑to‑end observability and drive continuous improvement in reliability and operational excellence using tools like Grafana. Onboard, train, and set up infra for tools by working with vendor teams and external partners so they can effectively support, operate, and extend the solutions owned by the Big Data Infrastructure (BDI) team. Drive the technical roadmap for emerging data and infrastructure technologies by evaluating options, building proofs of concept (POCs), and authoring solution selection and design documents. Your team will: Build and operate the shared infrastructure, tooling, and platforms that power LiveRamp’s core data and identity services, with a focus on reliability, security, and scale Provide paved roads for service development and deployment, so product teams can onboard quickly to standardized CI/CD, runtime, and observability stacks. Partner with application, data, and security teams to design infrastructure architectures that support high-throughput data processing and low-latency services. Define and evolve best practices for operational readiness, production rollouts, configuration management, and runtime governance across the engineering organization. Maintain and continuously improve shared environments (staging, performance, and production) to ensure predictable releases and consistent behavior across tiers. Act as the escalation point for complex infrastructure and deployment issues, collaborating across teams to debug, root cause, and remediate systemic problems. Drive cross-functional initiatives to modernize our platform (for example, container orchestration, secrets management, and cost optimization for cloud resources). Build infra for large‑scale data processing tools, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across LiveRamp using tools like Dataproc, Redpanda, Airflow and Temporal. Provide secure, self-service, and cost‑efficient data environments that enable product and data teams to experiment, ship, and scale data collaboration applications quickly. Partner closely with application, security, SRE, and platform teams to ensure data systems meet LiveRamp’s standards for privacy, compliance, reliability, and performance. About you: 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure-focused software engineering roles supporting production systems. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Significant hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) and the associated networking, security, and managed services. Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling (for example, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and configuration management frameworks. Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (for example, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) for large-scale, multi-service environments. Solid background in Linux systems, containers, and orchestration platforms (for example, Kubernetes, ECS, or similar). ·Experience implementing observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and using them to improve system reliability and performance. Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language commonly used for automation (such as Python, Go, or Bash). Demonstrated success collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams, with clear written and verbal communication and a focus on practical outcomes. Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response in high-availability, production environments. Experience in doing POCs by building infra for new tools. Strong collaboration and communication skills, including working with cross-functional partners (security, application owners, vendors) and documenting designs and decisions clearly. Preferred Skills: Experience in working in a DevOps/SRE/Platform team. 3 years of Software Development experience in one of the languages - Python, Go, Java or Scala. 3 years of experience with Linux Operating Systems. Experience with deployment and monitoring of highly scalable products. Experience in Infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform. 3 years of experience in setting up, managing and optimizing infra tools such as kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Kafka , Airflow, Redpanda and temporal. 3 years of experience using cloud-based platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure or similar. 3 years of experience with a Version Control System (GIT, Subversion, or similar) Experience in using AI tools, NLP and agent creation. Exposure to security and compliance considerations for data platforms (for example, access control, encryption, data governance, and auditing). Prior experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, or coordinating work with vendors and external partners. The approximate annual base compensation range is $130,00 to $196,500. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team. Benefits: People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do. Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues. Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave. Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more. Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead. More about us: LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp. LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. We use automated decision systems (ADS) as part of our recruitment and hiring process. If you require an accommodation or believe that the use of an ADS may create a barrier to your application or participation in the hiring process due to a disability or other protected characteristic, please let us know. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and ensuring an equitable hiring experience for all candidates. California residents: Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process. To all recruitment agencies: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Our growth is creating great opportunities! LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners. Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to retailers, financial services, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements. LiveRamp is based in San Francisco, California with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.