Platform DevOps Engineer - 75381

Technology and Engineering - USA New York, New York

If you are a DevOps and/or Cloud based systems enthusiast who likes to work on cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the freedom to explore, play, and learn, then Nielsen is the right place for you. Join a close-knit, passionate team that collaborates in an agile environment to develop great technology. We encourage professional growth opportunities and invest in your personal development. Bring your experience with Cloud and DevOps to help to build out the capabilities of our Nielsen Media platform.

Role Requirements:

• Passionate about cloud technology and DevOps.
• Competency in SQL and scripting in bash and or python for automation.
• Experience with DevOps automation technologies like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins (or similar ones).
• Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.
• 2+ years of work experience.
• A BS in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience.

Desired Skills:

• These skills are nice to have but not mandatory.
• Experience specifically with AWS.
• Ability to code well in Java or Python (or another language and willingness to learn these two).
• Experience with docker and kubernetes.
• Experience with Presto, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.
• History of open source contributions.

Job Purpose

• Develop and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms for kubernetes, data-lake query, data-processing, orchestration, monitoring, and more by leveraging popular open source software, AWS, and GitLab automation.
• Ensure the reliability and availability of our SaaS/PaaS services using SRE best practices for architecture, monitoring, alerting, etc.

Job Description

• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Presto, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.
• Be an internal sales-person for the platform, helping to get all teams towards full adoption. The platform allows Nielsen to provide all teams with features, optimizations, updates, and security enhancements at scale and pace.
• Diagnose technical and scalability faults on platform services which are typically built on Kubernetes.
• Provide technical support and usage guidance to the users of our platform’s services.
• Drive the creation and refinement of metrics, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to give us the visibility we need into our production services.