Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

You are a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for cloud infrastructure and automation. You're a self-starter and you love keeping up to date with the latest developments in cloud, configuration management and container technologies. You understand the benefits of an immutable infrastructure and you enjoy enabling self-service deployments through continuous delivery pipelines.

However, you have a head for operations and you know that security, backups, scalability and resilience are a paramount concern. In fact, you have a keen interest in security and you're always looking for ways to use infrastructure-as-code to achieve security and compliance at scale. You understand that costs are a concern for the modern infrastructure engineer and you're always looking for ways to reduce them.

You thrive in a collaborative DevOps culture and you love to work as part of a cross-functional agile product delivery team alongside developers, data scientists, product owners and technical architects.

Responsibilities

- Working in partnership with our software engineering teams, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is responsible for building and operating the next-generation infrastructure to support the GfK product portfolio.
- You thrive on independence, take charge in complex situations, and ensure reliability before customers notice problems.
- Working extensively with in our hybrid cloud environment (GCP, on-premise), you will be embedded within the product development and SRE squads to enable them to test and deploy software rapidly whilst ensuring the highest standards of reliability and security.
- You will influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, cost and high-performance.
- Part of your role will be to set up and maintain monitoring, metrics and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting and also create and maintain appropriate backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data.

Qualifications

- Strong Linux administration skills and a deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing)

- Proven expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale including advanced concepts (Operator, KEDA, OPA)

- Practical experience with Hashicorp Vault for secure secret management

- Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (GCP preferred) and Terraform for infrastructure automation

- Experience in setting up, maintaining and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Gitlab CI

- Demonstrable skills in a Configuration Management tool like Ansible

- Proficiency with monitoring, logging and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and ELK stack

- Skills in a high-level programming language such as Python or Go

- Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLI/SLO/SLA design, toil reduction and reliability modeling for optimizing system performance and resilience

- Knowledge of technical architecture and modern-day design patterns, including micro-services, serverless functions, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, etc.

- Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB), Redis, Spark, Rabbit, Kafka etc.

Additional Information

Our Benefits

- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

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