Senior DevOps Engineer

2 Days ago • 8 Years +

About the job

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At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

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

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