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.

　　ABOUT THIS JOB -

　　Platform engineers strike a balance between precision and disruption, between reliability and innovation. Nielsen is a tech company backed by over a century of forward momentum to show the world what's next-and we couldn't do it without our platform engineers.

　　In Nielsen Media, we are the market leader that drives content ratings across virtually all viewing platforms including local and national TV, streaming, digital advertising, and more. This role is in the Media Platform team, where we heavily leverage open source software, kubernetes, and cloud technologies to build a single central platform for managing compute, storage, orchestration, data science tooling, monitoring, and so much more. Our platform already deals with tens of petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of cpus and millions of containers every month, and it is continually growing.

　　RESPONSIBILITIES

　　Use your knowledge of open source, cloud, and devops technologies to architect new platform products for use across Nielsen's product portfolio.Perform architectural reviews for critical business products to ensure they are properly built for reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.Design and implement low-latency networking products.Review and refine the fundamental DevOps and SRE practices in platform and help define a standard for use around Nielsen.Mentor other platform team members to increase their technical and soft skills.

　　A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU

　　You have a genuine passion for DevOps and absolutely love learning new technologies. You don't just want to blindly use platforms and libraries; instead you have a desire to tear them apart and figure out how they work inside. You love scaling and optimizing and seeing just how far or how fast your projects can go. You see all of the building blocks in the community as legos and want to use them to build innovative new solutions at a faster pace than ever.

　　QUALIFICATIONS

　　Multiple years of experience in a DevOps role leading critical projects.Intensive knowledge of most core DevOps concepts and tools spanning source control, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, alerting, and logging.Deep knowledge of kubernetes is a must - AWS k8s a significant plus.Proficiency in Linux, with knowledge of networking and DNS.Experience with Big Data (Spark, Presto/Trino, etc) and streaming (Kafka/etc) is a plus.