Senior DevOps Engineer (Senior Engineer)

NIQ Activate is the leading provider of AI-powered customer analytics, personalization, and brand collaboration platform. Serving dozens of retailers and brands across the world using cutting edge big-data, real-time analytics, and data-science automation. Disrupting existing data & media monetization model by enabling retailers to remain in control of their revenue.

NIQ Activate’s solution leverages automation and AI to accelerate revenue generating opportunities and delivers dedicated applications for customer & product performance intelligence, audiences & segmentation building, offer management, and insights sharing that enable users to promptly identify risks and opportunities, and act on those insights, in just a few clicks.

We believe that building a great product and teams starts with amazing, diverse minded and bright people who make an impact, generate creative & innovative ideas and take on new perspectives. 

As the Sr DevOps Engineer at NIQ Activate, you will be responsible for leading a team of talented DevOps engineers. Your role will encompass a wide range of responsibilities including Cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer experience utilities, delivery automation, open-source solution research, durability - backup & restore, Security operations, disaster recovery, and general problem solving.

You will be expected to dive deep and identify failure patterns to resolve problems at their root, provide high-performance cloud deployment solutions, maintain rapid deployment pipelines, server monitoring, and troubleshooting. You will also be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure for developer’s environments to increase efficiency and productivity and centralizing our logging and monitoring solutions.

Requirements - A Must

B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent

At least 6 years of experience as a DevOps engineer, with a minimum of 3 years in a Senior role



Proven experience with at least one cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Solid understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and firewall configuration

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems

Experience in deploying, configuring, and optimizing database systems, including but not limited to PostgreSQL and SingleStore

Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for seamless and efficient software delivery

Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform

Proficient in Kubernetes architecture, deployment and administration

Hands-on experience in writing automation scripts using Python/ Alternatives to streamline deployment and operational tasks

Ability to work hybrid mode in our office in Yokneam / Toronto

 

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with monitoring stack like Grafana, Loki and Prometheus Knowledge of Jenkins, Maven, GitHub Action, ArgoCD, NX

Experience in implementing cloud security solutions

Relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or similar

Our Benefits

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

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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