Nielsen Jobs

Nielsen Marketing Cloud is a big-data group within Nielsen, a global measurement and big data analytics company. We are looking for a highly skilled Devops engineer with a strong passion for cutting-edge technologies.

We process 25TB of data each day in a highly distributed system. We work on 4 different AWS regions. We daily run 1000s of concurrent instances and millions of Lambda functions. We store over 3 Petabytes of data spanning hundreds of s3 buckets. We manage it all using dozens of Gitlab projects, Terraform, and in-house applications.

Job Overview

• As a Sr DevOps engineer, you will be in charge of planning and deploying production servers in high scale on AWS, deploying services to Kubernetes, monitoring our infrastructure, and supporting our development teams.

• Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop, automate, and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms built on AWS

• Lead discussions with developers, driving technical/architectural decisions relating to DevOps/AWS best practices

• Deploy Infrastructure as code (IAC) to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of platforms

• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems

• Build automated tests, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to help assure the quality and stability of various services

• Mentor and teach newer members of the Platform Operations team and other development teams about new tools and services we're using

• Implement and manage continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems and methodologies (Gitlab, Kubernetes)

Technical skills

• 8+ years of experience with Cloud services in a 24x7 uptime environment

• Fluent in bash and SQL for automation. Python is an advantage.

• Experience with automation technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins (or similar platforms).

• Experience with system monitoring tools, analyze and resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues

• Experience in one or more SQL databasesA bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience

Soft Skills

• A team mentor

• Present your ideas and drive to decisions Ability to work collaboratively and self-manage schedule/priorities

• Be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, meet deadlines, effectively manage priorities, and communicate progress

• Passion for learning and finding that unexpected solution

• Fluent in English (verbal AND written)Advantages - experience with: Python, Kafka, and Java