Senior DevOps Engineer

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Overview

Kantar leads in data, insights, consulting, and human understanding across various industries.

We are seeking dedicated Senior DevOps Engineers to join our engineering community. Together you are constructing, improving, and backing the next generation of our platform. This role is ideal for a highly experienced software engineer who enjoys collaborating as a team while creating elegant and straightforward solutions that scale!

Key Responsibilities

To design and build high-quality applications and services that cater to our global customer community. Our platform should be stable and resilient, highly secure, and adaptable to change as we continuously introduce new features and products. You can anticipate using innovative approaches to problem-solving, and we encourage ongoing learning.

What you will be doing

• Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the automation processes for provisioning infrastructure and applications – via infrastructure-as-code

• Standardize and streamline build and release pipelines – CI/CD

• Configure and administer platforms and services

• Support operational activities by ensuring platforms and infra for pipelines are optimal, recoverable, and easily scalable to meet the capacity demands

• Provide incident management oversight – root cause analysis, collaborator communications, post-mortems, and manage preventative measures and resolutions

• Drive improvements in operational efficiency for all services

• Actively involved in deployments of platform and pipeline artefacts

• Ensure security, high availability, and disaster recovery are always front of mind

• Continuous monitoring of cost and risk – with a view to reducing and mitigating

• Ensure production and non-production environments stay in sync through the alignment of stable standards, code, and configurations

• Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption e.g., tool selection

• Involved in PoCs, prototypes, and innovation spikes to seek directional outcomes

Capabilities and Experience

This role is perfect for a Senior DevOps Engineer who loves to tackle complex problems and come up with clean, stable solutions of that scale. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions.

Essential Experience

• Proficient with CI/CD toolchains (e.g., Azure DevOps, Git, etc.)

• Proficient in one or more scripting languages for automation (e.g., Linux Bash, PowerShell, Python)

• Proficient in provisioning platforms via Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) techniques (e.g., Terraform, YAML, Azure Resource Manager (ARM))

• Working experience configuring, securing, and administering platforms in Azure; knowledge in Cloud infrastructure and networking principles (e.g., Azure PaaS, IaaS)

• Experience working with vulnerability management and code-inspection tooling (e.g., Snyk, SonarQube)

• Embrace an "automation-first" approach in solution development; prioritize self-healing and fault-tolerant techniques to reduce manual intervention and downtime

• Ability to communicate fluently in English

• Good understanding of network configuration – DNS, Routing, VPN, Firewalls, Endpoint management

Desirable Experience

• Experience building/maintaining an API-led event-driven architecture, e.g., using Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions

• Demonstrable knowledge of working with distributed data platforms (e.g., Azure ADLS, Data Lakes)

• Knowledge about Azure Data Factory

• Cluster image container management (e.g., Azure Container Registry)

• Experience of including vulnerability management within the deployment pipelines – for package dependencies and containers

• Experience in implementing custom Data Observability, capturing telemetry for better understanding the health of data and pipelines

Behaviours/Competencies

• A passion for engineering and automation

• Strong ability to solve complex problems; skilled in structured approaches and achieving desired results

• Comfortable working with remote teams across multiple countries

• Believe in continual learning to stay fresh in an ever-evolving technology landscape

• Adaptable to shifting business requirements and occasional ambiguity

• Innovative and positive influencer

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.