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Nielsen Global Media is a global independent measurement and big data analytics company focused on your future. We explore audiences everywhere—uncovering and discovering what they want—so businesses can make media that counts.
We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead who likes to work on cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the autonomy to explore, learn, and adopt. Join a close-knit team of highly skilled engineers working in an agile environment, and you will be responsible for helping to lead a team of DevOps engineers and work closely with frontend/backend engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of devops engineers that maintain infrastructure for various big data platforms.
- Develop, automate, and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms built on AWS.
- Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of systems.
- Build fault-tolerant, scalable and resilient platforms.
- Collaborate with backend/frontend engineers, architects, and product teams to support teams that build solutions.
- Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience with Cloud services in a 24x7 uptime environment.
- 2+ years of leading a team of engineers.
- Competency in bash and SQL for automation.
- Python is an advantage.
- Experience with automation technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins (or similar platforms).
- Experience with system monitoring tools, analyze and resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues.
- Have worked in Agile and DevOps environments and have good understanding of SDLC.
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres), web servers, containers.
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with AWS
Nice To Have
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and containers.
- Experience with Airflow, ELK, or similar technologies.
- Infrastructure automation.
- Experience with backend big data platforms, technologies, and languages.
Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.
A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between $66,000-$225,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs
Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.
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