Description
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.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join Digital Technology team. Ideal candidate would be someone with a passion for Clean Code, Scalable architectures, Test Driven Development and DevOps. Someone who loves getting hands dirty with code and learns everyday.
Responsibilities
• Hands on developer to design, code, and test iteratively on technical solutions that meet business and technical requirements
• Implement automation in the areas of Cloud resource provisioning (IaC), unit testing, code coverage, static code analysis and vulnerability scanning with CI/CD process.
• Create appropriate documentation (process flows, technical specs, class diagrams, unit test cases).
• Assist in platform support and troubleshooting production issues.
• Promote a culture of best practices with peer code reviews and extreme ownership for continuous incremental delivery.
• Research and implement new technology solutions where applicable.
Requirements
• Extensive programming experience and desire to write and review code 70% of time.
• 5-6 years of experience working with Java with appreciation for Object Oriented and functional programming paradigms. Familiarity with Python is a plus.
• Hands on experience with Spark, Spark SQL, M/R Framework and Big Data Technology Stack.
• Experience developing cloud-hosted (AWS), containerized applications (K8s) and services.
• AWS Components: EMR, EC2, S3 storage, Lambda, Relational Database Service, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Elasticache, etc.
• Familiarity with relational and big data such as Postgres, Hadoop and columnar Storage formats Parquet
• Experience with source code control tools.
• Gitlab experience is a plus.
• Demonstrates knowledge of CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, practices and tools (Jenkins, jUnit, Terraform, JFrog, Jacoco, SonarQube, etc.)
• Familiarity of Linux platforms with knowledge of shell scripting.
• Knowledge of networking and protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL/certificates, TCP/IP