Job Description

Posted 1 week ago

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company and our Media colleagues are the experts in understanding the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable our clients to better understand media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Job Details

JOB SUMMARY:

It’s time for a new vision of ad intelligence. Vivvix unifies the advertising intelligence businesses of Kantar and Numerator into an independent company built for innovation, focused on delivering winning clarity for our clients to drive smarter, faster, better decisions. Our vision is to help anyone understand their competitive landscape and view all the dimensions of advertising that might go unseen.

At Vivvix, we have three powerful tenets. We help clients build up a greater understanding of your competitive landscape. We level up advertisers, agencies, and media owners to take command over competitors. We enable them to power up and chart a winning path for themselves.

We are currently hiring for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team.

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create, develop, and build infrastructure stacks on cloud using IAC tools like Terraform.
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering team to deploy applications and deep learning solutions into sophisticated and relevant production systems. 
• Engage with engineering leads in order to optimize the pipeline (build process, dependencies, integrations with Sonar, artifact deployment), and translate it to Azure DevOps.
• Respond and resolve service problems. Build tools and solutions to prevent problem re-occurrence.
• Shown experience on leading and configuring the continuous build and deployment pipelines in Azure Devops.
• Work with the technical leadership team and key partners to develop and implement production release and hotfix deployment strategy for the group.
• Knowledge on the cloud security concepts and ensure the security is on cloud is implemented.
• Comes with hands-on experience on the system and application monitoring using Grafana, Kibana, Loki tools, SolarWinds & Nagios.

What You'll Bring to Vivvix

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Experienced in designing and implementing applications on AWS & Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Experienced in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub actions and Jenkins.
• Expert level proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Golang, Groovy or Bash (Shell)
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills – desire to take on sophisticated problems at scale.
• Experience in the day-to-day usage and troubleshooting of Linux based operating systems such as RHEL, CentOS or Ubuntu and Windows.
• Experience with automation using Ansible scripts.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience in containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS & EKS).
• Experience with the adoption of robust, scalable monitoring solutions using Elasticsearch, FluentD, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana , Kubernetes lens etc. 

What we offer you:

• An inclusive and collaborative company culture
• An opportunity to have an impact on our growing teams and organization
• Ownership of platforms and environments with industry leading product
• Market competitive total compensation package
• Volunteer time off
• Strong support for career growth, including mentorship programs, leadership training, access to conferences and employee resources groups
• Great benefits package including health/vision/dental, unlimited PTO, 401k plus matching, and more

Privacy and Legal Statement:

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

The salary range for this role in New York State is $ 118,700.00 – 197,900.00 USD Annual. Your final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Country

United States of America

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.  We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.