DevOps Team Lead

Company Description

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.

Job Description

As the DevOps Team Leader 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.

Managerial Responsibilities

Build and lead a dedicated team of DevOps engineers focused on execution & delivery
Monitor the team's performance and metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing process changes to improve efficiency
Collaborate with other departments and peers to ensure timely resolution of customer issues
Manage team schedules and workload distribution to ensure adequate coverage and effective utilization of resources

Qualifications

Requirements - A Must

B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
At least 10 years of experience as a DevOps engineer, with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership 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

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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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion