Platform DevOps Engineer

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.

Job Description:

• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, 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 DevOps tools and best-practices, helping to get all teams towards full adoption. The platform allows Gracenote 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.

Role Requirements:

•  Passionate about software development and DevOps.
• Competency in SQL and scripting in bash and or python for automation.
• Experience with DevOps automation technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Secrets Management, Git, Jenkins (or similar ones).
• Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.
• Experience with containers (docker, container).
• Experience with AWS Services.
• 2+ years of work experience.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields

Desired Skills:

• Ability to code well in Java or Python (or another language and willingness to learn these two).
• Experience with containers (docker, containerd) and kubernetes.
• Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.
• History of open source contributions
• A personal tech blog