At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage cloud infrastructure and automate workflows using cutting-edge tools.
- Company: Join Ipsos, a leading global research company with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days annual leave, flexible working, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborate with talented teams in a dynamic, inclusive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by designing resilient systems for high-profile clients.
- Qualifications: Experience with cloud platforms, IaC tools, and CI/CD workflows is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Senior Platform & Reliability Production Engineer – Audience Measurement
Make Your Mark at Ipsos
Ipsos CrossMedia is at a pivotal and exciting stage of growth, and we are looking for a motivated Production Engineer to join our innovative Data Science and Engineering teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on both high-profile, established projects for blue-chip clients and to contribute to brand-new, greenfield initiatives.
What is in it for you?
- Build and Manage Cloud Infrastructure: You will own the management of our production and development infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS. This includes our Kubernetes clusters, cloud storage, and identity and access management.
- Master Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You will design, write, and deploy code to manage our infrastructure using modern IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
- Automate Everything: You will be responsible for our CI/CD pipelines, using tools like GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to automate the building, testing, and deployment of our applications and data workflows.
- Orchestrate Data Workflows: A core part of your role will be creating, maintaining, and monitoring our data ingestion and delivery pipelines using Argo Workflows.
- Ensure System Reliability (SRE Principles): You will monitor the health and performance of our systems, ensuring efficient resource usage.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: You will be empowered to propose and implement structural improvements to our platform.
- Collaborate Across Teams: You will work closely with our talented Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Owners.
- Shared On-Call Responsibility: You will participate in a shared, rota-based, out-of-hours emergency on-call schedule.
The Role
As a key member of our team, you will be at the heart of our data platform, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and efficiency. If you are passionate about designing, building, and deploying resilient, distributed systems and want to make a tangible impact, you will thrive here.
About you
- Cloud Platform Experience: Professional experience with a major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Knowledge of IaC principles and tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible.
- CI/CD: Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows.
- Databases: Working knowledge of SQL and experience with relational databases or data warehouses.
- Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash).
- ETL/Data Pipelines: Familiarity with data workflows and tools like Argo Workflows.
Desirable Skills (Nice to Have)
- Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Version Control: Proficiency with Git and collaborative workflows.
- NoSQL Databases: Familiarity with NoSQL databases like MongoDB or DynamoDB.
- Agile and Project Tracking: Experience with tools like Jira or Azure DevOps.
- Networking Concepts: A good understanding of networking principles (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP).
- Security Best Practices: A good awareness of and interest in security and privacy in the cloud.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.
Equality and Inclusion
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views.
About Us
Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years.
Contact Details:
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