At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future. This role will be part of a team that develops software interfaces with all the major TV streaming providers, and downloads tens of thousands of movies and TV shows from US and international platforms. This team is at the heart of Nielsen’s streaming measurement strategy, and is continually updating their software to adjust to the quickly evolving streaming environment. 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 Terraform.
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 Skills
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience, minimum 5 years, in UNIX based environments systems that span traditional on-prem/server and AWS serverless environments, utilizing tools such as: Python, Shell Scripting, RDS/SQL, S3 Life cycle, Docker, EKS, EMR, EC2, Airflow, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, & 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
Desirable skills
Knowledge of networking principles and security best practices.
