The Role
Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for improving code quality, optimizing processes, and ensuring stability of production environments. Key tasks include process improvement, technical issue resolution, deployment of applications, and mentoring junior engineers. Desired skills include knowledge of networking, experience with Data Lakes and Google Cloud, AWS Certification, and Kanban board management.
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About the Role
- This role will be part of a team that develops software that runs on over 100k computers worldwide, measuring panelists activities as they surf the Internet. Using a software meter that is optimized to be unintrusive to the user, yet able to gather many biometric data points and send them back to a collection system that runs in the Cloud.
- As a Senior Devops Engineer you will help to increase speed of delivery, improve quality/security of code, and optimize processes for the development team. With a heavy focus on cost avoidance and security
- You will be responsible for identifying potential failure modes & performance improvement opportunities, and then work with the development team to improve a system that processes massive amounts of data every hour 24x7. You will play a key role in ensuring the stability of our production environments and mentoring other team members.
Key skills
- Work closely with Tech Leads and developers to assess existing problems and to come up with process improvement solutions
- Detect upcoming bottlenecks and production issues proactively and then consult with development teams in a hands-on manner to resolve technical issues
- Participate in planning delivery time, code quality, and process efficiency improvement projects
- Perform daily tasks such as environmental health checks, data storage monitoring, and environmental costs
- Deploying application release into no-prod and production environments using automated CI/CD pipelines that include security vulnerability assessments
- Automated repetitive manual DevOps task using tools such as Teraform
- Collaborate with other DevOps teams to build a community of practice
- Mentor junior devops engineers, providing guidance on technical aspects and best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and unified approach to software development.
- Support the implementation of security best practices for on-prem and AWS (cloud) environments in multiple countries/regions
Desired skills
- Knowledge of networking principles and security best practices.
- Experience with Data Lakes, or Google Cloud (GCP) a plus
- AWS Certification is a plus
- Experience managing work via a Kanban board a plus
Top Skills
AWS
Teraform
The Company
What We Do
Nielsen shapes the world’s media and content as a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics. Through our understanding of people and their behaviors across all channels and platforms, we empower our clients with independent and actionable intelligence so they can connect and engage with their audiences—now and into the future.
An S&P 500 company, Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) operates around the world in more than 55 countries.
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