Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Devsecops

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will look after our Regional Businesses technology teams providing them with DevSecOps / SRE expertise and leadership. We currently have 10 businesses in our Regional Business portfolio, and this is growing all the time. If you are excited about cloud engineering, passionate about physical infrastructure and understand the importance of automation, then this challenge is for you.

We are looking for somebody to take the lead on our DevSecOps journey, working across businesses that are all currently on different tech stacks. To be successful in this role you will need to be naturally collaborative and naturally inquisitive with a strong desire to learn. We have a lot of strong people across the broader Global Engineering team that you will both learn from, and be supported by.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with our software engineering teams to build and operate the next-generation infrastructure to support the NIQ regional business product portfolio
• Work across both phsical and cloud infrastructures, across a very broad set of tech stacks – our ten regional businesses have all grown independently, and all have different stacks, toolsets, processes and maturities. You will be working with tech teams and stakeholders across all of these areas, and representing the Regional Businesses in our broder core SRE / platform team community
• Collaborate with the product development teams to enable them to test and deploy software rapidly whilst ensuring the highest standards of reliability and security
• Within the Regional Business portfolio, you will lead the automation of the build and deployment of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes & other orchestration technologies in a hybrid-cloud environments
• 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 work with the teams to create and maintain appropriate backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data

• A strong desire to learn and keep learning, and an ability to share your knowledge with those you are working with
• 4+ years of knowledge in either Systems Administration or Software Engineering  
• Experience with major public Cloud Providers
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Experience with IaC (Terraform) 
• Good understanding of GitOps concepts and tools (for example Flux)
• 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 Github, Gitlab or similar
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language such as Python, Ruby, Go or similar
• Experience with monitoring, log aggregation and alerting tooling (for example Prometheus, Grafana, etc).  

• Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peer-to-peer recognition platforms.
• Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family.
• Plan your future with financial wellness tools.
• Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities. 

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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