Sr. DevOps Engineer - Military Veterans
at The Nielsen Company
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
At Nielsen, we bring together big data and technology to provide our media clients with insights into consumers' viewing behavior. We are looking for DevOps Engineer to join our team in Chicago and build a robust, reliable and available cloud based data science platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES -
- Provide technical support to data scientists using the platform (both internal and external)
- Diagnose technical faults on a platform using Kubernetes, Airflow, Spark, Jupyterhub, Gluster, Azure, AWS
- Write software as necessary to ensure system reliability
- Read and debug data science models written using Python, Spark, R, etc
- Manage the lifecycle of trouble tickets assigned to the platform
- Escalate issues to the platform team, other business units, and vendors as necessary
- Must be able to juggle multiple priorities and handle work requests with a sense of urgency. Must have the technical skills to understand a cloud-based containerized data science platform
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU -
- You are a DevOps and 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. You love solving problems for your clients and bringing creative new ideas to their business. Curiosity, communication, and critical thinking drive your work. You manage relationships and expectations as well as you manage projects. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and work well under pressure--you focus, dig in, and get it done.
QUALIFICATIONS -
- BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- Passionate about cloud technology and statistical modeling
- Working Knowledge of Python
- Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms
- Experience with some cloud-based platform (AWS, Azure, GCE, OpenStack, DO, Linode, etc)
NICE TO HAVE -
- Experience with Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible, Jenkins or similar technologies like Puppet, Chef, etc
- Knowledge of Ruby, Scala, Javascript, R, C++
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar technologies (Mesos, ECS, Docker Swarm, etc)
- Experience building or maintaining statistical models
Mumbai, MH
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 100 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.