2025-P-0060 Sr. AdTech Cloud Architect

Sr. AdTech Cloud Architect & Platform Engineer (Contractor)

Bangalore, India

About The Role
We seek highly dedicated, motivated, and Sr. AdTech Cloud Architect & Platform Engineer

who can use the right tools to find the best solutions to problems. We embrace the Agile methodology and as part of a scrum team you will play an important role in all aspects of product development--design, development, integration, and testing. And you will share in the pride and satisfaction as your work makes it into production at INVIDI's clients.

This is a critical role requiring a rare blend of strategic architectural vision and deep, hands-on engineering execution. For the first six months, the contractor will function as a high-velocity consultant in collaboration with the development team.

The primary goal is to diagnose systemic architecture issues in our complex, high-scale Digital Campaign Manager and Ad Server (GCP, Kubernetes, Bigtable, etc.), recommend and implement optimizations to reduce cost, strengthening security, and creating a flexible, loosely coupled modular design to enable small, self-contained and independent deployable units. Success in this phase is the primary pathway to conversion.

Key Responsibilities
Rapid System Analysis & Knowledge Transfer (KT)

• System Ingestion: Quickly and autonomously on-board onto the existing complex digital campaign management and ad serving platform architecture within the first 1-2 weeks
• Documentation: Create high-quality, practical documentation and runbooks for the existing infrastructure, service dependencies, data flow pipelines, and core business logic related to ad selection, bidding, and campaign throttling
• Code Review: Conduct targeted code and configuration reviews to identify technical debt, security gaps, and immediate performance optimization opportunities within the high-traffic services

Technical Deep Dive & Optimization

• GCP & Kubernetes: Analyze the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, including resource allocation, autoscaling strategies, networking (VPC, load balancers), and service mesh configurations for latency-sensitive ad requests
• Data Tier Expertise: Deeply analyze the utilization and schema of key data services, specifically Google Cloud Bigtable and AstroDB (or substitute with a specific NoSQL/NewSQL service), to diagnose and improve read/write latency, cost efficiency, and query performance
• Relational Database Tuning: Tune and optimize the performance of MySQL databases used for campaign configuration, reporting, and real-time inventory management.
• CI/CD & Observability: Review and recommend improvements to the existing CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Cloud Build, Bitbucket, Jenkins) and observability stack (e.g. Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to enhance deployment speed and incident response

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work collaboratively with the existing in-house development and DevOps teams in consultation with Architecture and AppSec teams to provide clear, concise technical guidance and mentorship on best practices for cloud-native AdTech development
• Present findings, recommendations, and execution plans clearly to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers)

Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on high-scale, cloud-native distributed systems.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Kafka, specifically:
• Container Orchestration: Expert-level proficiency with Kubernetes (GKE), including cluster operations, Helm, manifest management, and networking policies.
• NoSQL/Big Data: Proven experience with Cloud Bigtable data modeling, performance tuning, and schema design for low-latency, high-throughput use cases (mandatory).
• Databases: Strong proficiency with SQL/NoSQL systems like MySQL, AstroDB (or equivalent), including advanced query optimization and replication.
• AdTech/High-Performance Experience: Direct experience developing or managing low-latency, high-RPS platforms (e.g., Ad Servers, RTB Bidders, Payment Gateways).
• Programming: Strong proficiency in at least one relevant backend language (e.g., Go, Python, Java) used in cloud microservices.
• DevOps/IaC: Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Exceptional Learning Agility: Proven ability to rapidly absorb and navigate complex, undocumented systems.
• Self-Directed & Accountable: Capable of working independently, prioritizing tasks based on business impact, and delivering concrete results under contract timelines.
• Excellent Communication: Ability to communicate technical analysis, risks, and recommendations to a mixed audience (engineers, executives, product owners).

It would be very good if you have experience in:

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification
• Experience with streaming data technologies like Cloud Pub/Sub or Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with advertising campaign budgeting/throttling logic
• Experience with migrating or refactoring legacy components into microservices

Physical Requirements

• INVIDI is a conscious, clean, well-organized, and supportive office.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer are normal.

Note

• Candidate must be legally authorized to work in India.
• Final candidates must successfully pass INVIDI's background screening requirements.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

INVIDI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds. INVIDI is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources by email at at least one week in advance of your interview.

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