Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

NielsenIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. 

Job Description

You are a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for cloud infrastructure and automation. You’re a self-starter and you love keeping up to date with the latest developments in cloud, configuration management and container technologies. You understand the benefits of an immutable infrastructure and you enjoy enabling self-service deployments through continuous delivery pipelines.

However, you have a head for operations and you know that security, backups, scalability and resilience are a paramount concern. In fact, you have a keen interest in security and you’re always looking for ways to use infrastructure-as-code to achieve security and compliance at scale. You understand that costs are a concern for the modern infrastructure engineer and you’re always looking for ways to reduce them.

You thrive in a collaborative DevOps culture and you love to work as part of a cross-functional agile product delivery team alongside developers, data scientists, product owners and technical architects.

Responsibilities

Working in partnership with our software engineering teams, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is responsible for building and operating the next-generation infrastructure to support the GfK product portfolio.

Working extensively with in our hybrid cloud environment (GCP, private VMWare cloud), you will be embedded within the product development and SRE squads to enable them to test and deploy software rapidly whilst ensuring the highest standards of reliability and security.

You will influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, cost and high-performance.

Part of your role will be to set up and maintain monitoring, metrics and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting and also create and maintain appropriate backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data.

Qualifications

Skills

• Linux administration skills and a deep understanding of networking and TCP/IP.
• Experience with the major cloud providers and Terraform.
• Knowledge of technical architecture and modern-day design patterns, including micro-services, serverless functions, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, etc.
• Demonstrable skills in a Configuration Management tool like Ansible.
• Experience in setting up and supporting CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as GitHub or Gitlab CI
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language such as Python or Go.
• Experience with monitoring, log aggregation, and alerting tooling (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana etc).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with secret management tools like Hashicorp Vault is deemed a plus
• Proficient in applying SRE core tenets, including SLI/SLO/SLA measurement, toil elimination, and reliability modeling for optimizing system performance and resilience.
• Experience with cloud-native tools like Cluster API, service mesh, KEDA, OPA, Kubernetes Operators
• Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS(PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB), Redis, Spark, Rabbit, Kafka etc.
• Experience in troubleshooting and monitoring large-scale distributed systems

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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