Technical Lead DevSecOps Engineer

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Job Details

Role Overview

Kantar is a global data, insights, and consulting company. We have deep knowledge of human behavior and specialize in brand, innovation, media, commerce, and customer experience. Our experts help clients define their brand identity, innovate their offerings, connect with audiences, and succeed in the marketplace.

We are looking for a dedicated Technical Lead DevSecOps Engineer to join our engineering community. Together we are improving and supporting the next generation of our platform. This role is perfect for experienced DevOps, DevSecOps or Site-Reliability Engineers who are hard-working and love to work as a team while building elegant and simple solutions that scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to team standards and workflows by developing proof of concepts, crafting clear documentation, and implementing proven DevOps methodologies.

• Participate in daily operations including production deployments, urgent requests, and planned work while collaborating with cross-functional teams (DBAs, Developers, QA, Product, Architects).

• Independently assess and prioritize incoming work requests, making critical decisions during periods of limited resource availability to maintain business continuity.

• Identify and implement cloud infrastructure improvements to improve security, system reliability, and reduce costs, while following standard methodologies and organizational policies.

• Apply infrastructure fundamentals (networking, routing, security, storage) and performance optimization techniques (load balancing, caching, CDN) to ensure system reliability, scalability, and availability.

• Build vulnerability management processes using security tools (Azure Defender, SonarQube, Snyk, Qualys WAS), coordinating with security teams and external auditors.

• Drive vulnerability remediation efforts by distributing findings to appropriate teams, tracking progress, and maintaining documentation of risk assessments and mitigation decisions.

• Design and implement automated provisioning solutions across all environments, primarily using tools such as Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, databases, and application code management.

• Advocate for DevOps practices by presenting arguments, cost-benefit analyses, and implementation strategies to Engineering Leadership.

• Establish and maintain robust monitoring processes for proactive system health checks, anomaly detection, and alerting.

• Support and collaborate with development teams, being a driver of the DevOps vision.

Role Requirements & Capabilities

In the role of Technical Lead DevSecOps Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing DevOps practices to enhance software system quality. Automation will be encouraged to support this objective and provide a world-class Developer Experience.

• Proficient in English with strong written and verbal communication skills. This role involves collaborating locally in Porto and regularly interacting with international teams in the UK, India, and the USA.

• Extensive understanding of Azure Cloud services, architecture patterns, and security standard methodologies.

• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical challenges and proposed solutions to collaborators.

• Experience crafting comprehensive technical documentation including architecture designs, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.

• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and ARM templates to automate and manage cloud environments.

• Advanced experience with CI/CD concepts and writing Azure DevOps Pipelines for deploying architecture and application code.

• Proven experience in performance monitoring and optimization using tools like Grafana, Azure Monitor by bringing to bear Kusto Queries or similar solutions.

• Ability to investigate and debug infrastructure and performance related issues.

• Familiarity with software versioning control systems such as Azure DevOps Repositories, Git, Bitbucket.

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and minimum 8 years of hands-on DevSecOps experience including relevant DevOps experience.

• Professional certifications in Azure (AZ-400, AZ-303/304/305) preferred.

• Demonstrated dedication to personal and professional growth.

• Self-motivated with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, demonstrating ability to make critical decisions under pressure.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, 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.