Senior DevOps Engineer II [Cloud Networking] en The Nielsen Company

Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Transformation: Lead and be part of the shift from legacy infrastructure to modern, cloud-native deployments with a focus on governance and scalability.
• Multi-Cloud Connectivity: Design and deploy robust networking solutions across AWS (Must-have) and GCP/Azure (Preferred), including complex on-prem to cloud hybrid connectivity. 
• Advanced Networking Stack: Orchestrate large-scale Transit Gateway deployments, VPC peering, custom DNS solutions, and Route53 management across all layers of the networking stack.
• Governance as an Enabler: Develop automated frameworks that mitigate risk and ensure data residency without stifling the velocity of Product and Tech teams.

FinOps Alignment: Implement network designs that prioritize fiscal responsibility, maximizing ROI on cloud spend through unit-economics transparency.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of proven track record in DevOps and Cloud Networking.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Cloud Domain: Expert-level AWS proficiency is mandatory; experience with GCP or Azure is a significant advantage. 
• Network Depth: Mastery of VPC, DNS, Route53, and large-scale Transit Gateway deployments. 
• Automation: Experience using Infrastructure as Code to ensure architectural integrity and performance.

Additional Information

The "Architect-Strategist" Persona

• Self-Driven & Decisive: You prioritize the functional "how" and the strategic "why" while stripping away administrative noise.
• Collaborative Liaison: Partner closely with the CTO Group and global engineering leads to align network infrastructure with product roadmaps.
• Risk-First Framework: Ability to identify architectural "rest risks," explain the consequences, and offer pragmatic pivots.
• Domain Authoritative: Technically precise communication focused on scalability and performance bottlenecks.

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