Sr DevOps Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES
● Use your knowledge of open source, cloud, and devops technologies to implement new
platform products for use across Nielsen’s product portfolio.
● Drive cost optimization and efficiency across the platform cloud portfolio.
● Improve our cloud and application security posture by increasing adoption of our security
tool stack across our code bases.
● Mentor other platform team members to increase their technical and soft skills.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU
You have a genuine passion for DevOps and absolutely love learning new technologies. You
don’t just want to blindly use platforms and libraries; instead you have a desire to tear them
apart and figure out how they work inside. You love scaling and optimizing and seeing just how
far or how fast your projects can go. You see all of the building blocks in the community as
legos and want to use them to build innovative new solutions at a faster pace than ever.

Qualifications

● 6+ years of experience in a DevOps role leading critical projects.
● Intensive knowledge of core DevOps concepts and tools spanning source control,
CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, alerting, and logging.
● Deep knowledge of kubernetes and AWS (or a rival cloud) is mandatory.
● A history of designing and implementing complex products within AWS (or a rival cloud).
● Past experience optimizing cost over large-scale cloud infrastructure.
● Proficiency in Linux, with knowledge of networking and DNS.
● Experience with Big Data (Spark, Presto/Trino, etc) and streaming (Kafka/etc) is a plus.

Additional Information

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