Lead DevOps Engineer

Job description

Date: Apr 23, 2019

Location: Tampa, FL, US

Company: Nielsen

Lead DevOps Engineer - 35831

Data Science - USA Tampa, Florida

Nielsen is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. An S&P 500 company, Nielsen has operations in over 100 countries, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

We are looking for highly motivated and talented AWS Cloud focused Sr. DevOps Engineers to become part of this team that enables the Data Science organization. Data science is a core competency of Nielsen, and as we evolve into a world of big data, ML, AI - speed of delivering our methodology to our production products is critical. You will be the key to designing and implementing environments which automate and optimize Data Science processes.

DevOps Duties and Responsibilities

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This role is part of a development team to support a culture of DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment

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Develop the foundations for CI/CD for our Data Science organization

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Help establish organizational best practices around CI/CD

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Design, develop, and implement automation tooling that enables the Data Science organization to deliver best-in-class services

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Facilitate along with development teams to determine requirements around automation tools, configuration management, and deployment methodologies

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Analyze current systems and provide insight into how they may be further optimized

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Identify and correct deficiencies in existing automation tools

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Bring energy and passion to your work day in and day out. Be strategic and tactical

Requirements and Qualifications

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Bachelor's/Masters degree in CS, engineering, software engineering, or a related field

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3+ years of experience as an established 'hands-on' member of a DevOps team.

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Expert Level: Writing scripts for maintenance and automation in a variety of languages (Bash, Python).

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Expert Level: DevOps workflows and common CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, Artifactory, Maven, Gradle)

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Expert Level: Git, Git workflows, and common git server products such as BitBucket, GitHub

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Expert Level: Configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform)

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Strong knowledge: Automating deployment, scaling, mgmt of containerized applications, hands-on experience with Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes

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Strong knowledge: AWS/ECS/Fargate/Lambda/EC2/IAM Roles and Policies/etc..

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Strong knowledge: Monitoring tools - Instana/Nagios

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Big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark a plus

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Familiarity with JIRA / Confluence

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Strong Linux experience

About Nielsen:

Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. Our approach marries proprietary Nielsen data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what's happening now, what's happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. For more than 90 years Nielsen has provided data and analytics based on scientific rigor and innovation,continually developing new ways to answer the most important questions facing the media, advertising, retail and fast-moving consumer goods industries. An S&P 500 company, Nielsen has operations in over 100countries, covering more than 90% of the world's population. For more information, visitwww.nielsen.com .

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.