Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Join GfK and help us shape tomorrow. As an NIQ company, we are the world's leading consumer intelligence firm, delivering the Full View™ on consumer behavior. We work to enable manufacturers and retailers better understand what consumers really want. Our name has inspired trust for over 89 years because we take pride in discovering new pathways to sustainable growth for our clients, our people, and our planet.

We are always looking for open-minded people who will grow with us, push boundaries, and pioneer disruptive methods in market research, data science, technology, and AI. If you share this passion to drive things forward and the integrity to insist on doing things the right way, we'll equip you to take your future into your own hands and play a leading role in our story.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will look after one of the newest propositions in the GfK portfolio supporting our next-generation platform - GfKnewron. If you are excited about cloud engineering (GCP), passionate about all Kubernetes and understand the importance of automation, then the challenge is for you.  

You will… 

• Work in partnership with our software engineering teams to build and operate the next-generation infrastructure to support the GfK product portfolio.  
• Work extensively with GCP.  
• Collaborate with the product development squads to enable them to test and deploy software rapidly whilst ensuring the highest standards of reliability and security.  
• Automate the build and deployment of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes & other orchestration technologies in a hybrid-cloud environment.  
• Influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, cost and high-performance. 

• Set up and maintain monitoring, metrics and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting and create and maintain appropriate backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data. 

You have… 

• 5+ years of relevant experience as an SRE/DevOps Engineer 
• Have a background in either Systems Administration or Software Engineering  
• Strong experience with major public Cloud Providers (ideally GCP but this is not a must have)
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Strong experience with IaC (Terraform) 
• Strong understanding of GitOps concepts and tools (ideally Flux)
• Excellent knowledge of technical architecture and modern design patterns, including micro-services, serverless functions, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, etc.  
• Ability to set up and support CI/CD pipelines and tooling using Gitlab.  
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language such as Python, Ruby or Go  
• Experience with monitoring, log aggregation and alerting tooling (GCP Logging, Prometheus, Grafana).  

• Exciting work environment that brings people together.

• Use the latest digital technologies.

• Ongoing trainings to support your development.

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.

• Great compensation and bonus scheme linked to individual performance and company results.

• Flexible working hours and home office.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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