DevOps Engineer 2

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.

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 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 making performance improvements 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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with developers to assess existing problems and to come up with solutions 
• Work to resolve bottlenecks and production issues proactively
• 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
• 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 

Key skill

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience, minimum 2 years, in UNIX based environments systems that span traditional on-prem/server and AWS serverless environments, utilizing tools such as: Python, Shell Scripting, Oracle/RDS/SQL, S3 Life cycle, Docker, EKS, EMR, EC2, Airflow, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Spotfire, & OpsGeni
• Good understanding of CI/CD principles and tools. GitLab a plus
• Good problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills with ability to communicate technical concepts
• Able to innovative solutions within a group

Other desirable skills

• Knowledge of networking principles and security best practices.
• AWS Certification is a plus

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