We reach more people than Google.
Thought that would get your attention. 

Advertising.com is one of the most successful companies in online advertising and we’re looking for someone just like you to help take our company to the next level. Advertising.com has an immediate opening for a Senior Operations Engineer in our Boston, MA office.  Interested? Read on to find out more and apply.

“So it’s a great place to work, but what exactly do you do?” Born and bread in Baltimore, Advertising.com reaches more people each month than Google, Yahoo! and MSN. How? We buy up ad space from sites all around the Web and sell it to advertisers in aggregate – using very sophisticated technologies and solutions to match advertisements to ad space.

The Senior Operations Engineer will be responsible for day-to-day monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining our highly available, 24x7 (99.999%) hosting infrastructure for our Third Screen Media group in Boston, MA. The position will be responsible for the design and build out of performance enhancements, security, and capacity expansion. This individual will be committed, well organized, attentive to detail and an exceptional communicator: This position will interface not only with development, but with program management, documentation and release engineering.

ESSENTIAL PERSONAL AND OPERATING VALUES:
• Goal driven. Highly communicative. Technology curious.
• High work ethic and driven to ensure maximum uptime and performance.
• Works well with other departments including engineering , client services and program management.
 • Knowledge and operational experience with a Unix based, enterprise-class multi-tenant hosted solution..
• Monitor the health, capacity and performance of a high availability, high traffic environment – ensuring the environment is operating optimally and at peak efficiency.
• Vigilantly and quickly act as second level support and manage incidents until resolved; develop solutions, proactively communicate with other team members and customers.
• Contribute to planning efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, component upgrading and system hardening
• Work with Program Management and Engineering to determine QA paths for upcoming releases.
• Coordinate the production releases between the various organizations for scheduling and deployment.
• Capable of defining and running projects from concept to delivery.
• Learn fast, work independently, and handle multiple simultaneous projects.
• Provide support documentation, including procedural documentation;

 QUALIFICATIONS
• 5-7 years of experience in working in multi tenant hosted environment
• Working knowledge of Linux, SAN, servers/databases, WAN, firewalls, load balancers and SQL architecture.
• Excellent writing and verbal communications skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills with the ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical colleagues.
• Effective when working under pressure and delivering to high standards within tight deadlines.
• Experience with J2EE systems
• Comfort with Windows XP, Macintosh and UNIX environments
• Previous experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment
• In depth understanding of enterprise and/or ASP systems and how to evaluate performance and stability across these systems.
• Detailed knowledge of real-time systems, databases and performance.
• Strong background in supporting a 7X24 production environment.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
• BA/BS in computer science or technical related field.
• Experience in technical documentation would be considered a plus
• Experience in testing and performance labs would be considered a plus

Please apply directly at www.advertising.com/careers.php

Engineer II, Operations TSM