Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

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

If you are a DevOps and/or Cloud based systems enthusiast who likes to work on cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the freedom to explore, play, and learn, then Nielsen is the right place for you. Join a close-knit, passionate team that collaborates in an agile environment to develop great technology. We encourage professional growth opportunities and invest in your personal development. Bring your experience with Cloud and DevOps to help to build out the capabilities of our Nielsen Media platform.

Job Purpose:

• Collaboratively drive cloud service architecture and optimization in a large-scale existing cloud environment (mostly AWS, some GCP).

• Develop and scale SaaS/PaaS platforms for kubernetes, data-lake query, data-processing, orchestration, monitoring, and more by leveraging popular open source software and SaaS services like GitLab.

• Ensure the reliability and availability of our SaaS/PaaS services using SRE best practices for architecture, monitoring, alerting, etc.

Job Description:

• Provide architectural recommendations to improve and scale our existing large-scale cloud DevOps services and their underlying infrastructure.

• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, vault, kafka, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and improve our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.

• Be an internal sales-person for the platform, helping to get all teams towards full adoption. The platform allows Nielsen to provide all teams with features, optimizations, updates, and security enhancements at scale and pace.

• Diagnose and mitigate technical and scalability faults on platform services, largely running over kubernetes on AWS.

• Drive the creation and refinement of metrics, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to give us the visibility we need into our production services.

Role Requirements:

• Passionate about cloud tech, DevOps, architecture and scalable design.

• Proficient in DevOps automation - e.g. terraform, gitlab/jenkins, equivalents.

• Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms, scripting languages.

• 10+ years of work experience.

• A BS in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience.