Job Description

Company Description
Join Nielsen Sports, the global leader in sports media valuation and data analytics. Our engineering teams build the cutting-edge AI and data products that power the business of sports.
As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will be the chief architect and technical leader for the cloud platform that underpins our entire development lifecycle. You will drive the strategy and innovation that enables our teams to deliver value faster and more securely than ever before.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of our centralized DevOps platform on AWS EKS, ensuring it is scalable, resilient, and cost-effective.
• CI/CD Strategy: Own and optimize our end-to-end continuous delivery strategy, advancing our use of Argo CD and GitLab CI to perfect the developer experience.
• Advanced Observability: Architect and manage our comprehensive monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos), setting the standards for logging, metrics, and alerting across the organization.
• Security Automation: Design and maintain the security posture of our HashiCorp Vault cluster and automate secure secret injection across all applications and EKS clusters.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Excellence: Champion IaC principles, establishing best practices and reusable Terraform modules to ensure consistency and standardization across all development tribes.
• Mentorship & Expertise: Mentor other engineers on the team and act as the ultimate subject matter expert on the platform, guiding development teams on complex integrations and best practices.
• Tooling Innovation: Evaluate, prototype, and implement new tools (e.g., Karpenter, KEDA, OpenCost) to enhance platform capabilities and efficiency.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 5-12 years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, with a proven track record of designing and building large-scale cloud platforms.
• Cloud & Containers: Expert-level, hands-on experience with AWS, especially EKS. Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture and operations.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Mastery of Terraform for provisioning and managing complex, multi-environment cloud infrastructure.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Proven, deep expertise in building sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) and implementing GitOps at scale with Argo CD.
• Monitoring & Observability: Extensive experience designing and managing the Prometheus/Grafana stack, including long-term storage solutions like Thanos.
• Security: Deep, practical experience with HashiCorp Vault in a production environment.
• Nice to Have: Strong experience with the "Nice to Have" skills is highly expected at this level (Karpenter, KEDA, Thanos, Artifactory, SonarQube, OpenCost).

Additional Information
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