Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it's consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

About Gracenote :

Gracenote is the top provider of entertainment information, creating industry-leading databases of TV, movie, and music metadata for entertainment guides, applications and in-car entertainment. Our technology serves billions of requests daily to hundreds of millions of devices around the world. Our customers include innovators like Apple, Twitter, Google, Spotify, M-GO and Hulu, top consumer electronics and cable companies, and leading automotive manufacturers such as Ford and Toyota, throughout the US and the world. Simply put, data provides you with an opportunity to impact the evolution of the entire entertainment industry.

Purpose

As a devops engineer, your role is to support the development teams by assisting in automation of deployment processes, monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues. You will gain hands-on experience in implementing devops tools and practices, contributing to efficiency and reliability of our software delivery.

Overall Responsibilities

Deploy, automate, maintain, and troubleshoot DevOps managed shared services
Assist in Design, Implement and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure to support SDLC
Develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline software releases and updates
Ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems
Contribute to automating system configurations, deployments and monitoring to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
Research and implement new DevOps technologies
Work closely with the Global DevOps and dedicated DevOps teams
Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements

Must Haves

Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems issues and implement effective solutions.
Demonstrable DevOps experience
Experience with programming or scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java
Experience working in a Linux and in a cloud environment
Proficient in implementing Infrastructure as a code using tools like terraform and cloud formation
Experience with Infrastructure as code, containerization such as K8s/Docker, logging, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD tools
Willingness to learn above mentioned qualifications if some are missing
Minimum 3+ years provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments
Proficient with AWS services
Familiarity interacting with AWS APIs
AWS Disaster Recovery design and deployment across regions a plus

Desired Skills / Good To Have

Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking
Experience in automation and testing via scripting & programming (PowerShell, Jenkins, Python, Ruby, Java)
Experience with working with geographically dispersed teams
Experience with secrets management tools like Hashicorp Vault
Professional certifications such as AWS certified Devops Engineer, Kubernetes administrator etc
Demonstrated experience leading devops teams or projects, fostering collaboration.
A personal technical blog
A personal (Git) repository of side projects
Participation in an open-source community

Qualifications

B.E / B.Tech / BCA/ MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
Comfortable with version control systems such as git.
A thirst for learning new Tech and keeping up with industry advances.
Excellent communication and knowledge-sharing skills.
Comfortable working with technical and non-technical teams.
Strong debugging skills.
Comfortable providing and receiving code review feedback.
Smart+Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
A positive attitude, adaptability, enthusiasm, and a growth mindset.

Additional Information

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