As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Our versatility, scale, technology, and expertise enable our 5000 people across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America, and Africa to understand audiences and help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow

Location: Stockholm , Vasagatan

Role Description

Excitingly Kantar Media has partnered with the MMS to build a new Cross-Media Measurement panel in Sweden, that will be one of the first of its kind in the world. We are looking for forward-thinking, diverse, and client-focused individuals to join our team and make this audience measurement panel a success for MMS and Kantar Media.

We have a vacancy for a DevOps Engineer to maintain our cloud-based systems and ensure the daily delivery of data. You will supervise and maintain daily data production operations. The systems are hosted on Azure containers and uses a range of frameworks, software, databases, and API layers.

Tasks & responsibilities

As a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure that the systems for producing audience data run efficiently, which will produce daily data to the Media Industry, according to the contracts and SLA’s. You will be included in exciting and large project that will be set up from scratch. Therefore, we are looking for professionals that is eager to help building this project. Using innovative tooling in an international, data driven organization.

• Manage and maintain Azure resources using Terraform scripts to host mostly internally developed custom software.
• Deploy systems using Helm charts, .yaml files, and Azure Pipelines to automate processes.
• Utilize Zabbix for monitoring cloud-based interconnected systems running 24/7, including Kubernetes, Hive, Elasticsearch, Kibana, RabbitMQ, Docker, and Azure Blob Storage.
• Perform routine housekeeping tasks such as backups, monitoring SSL certificates, and managing SAS tokens.
• Ensure systems comply with Kantar security and disaster recovery standards and client requirements.
• Collaborate with the Central Cloud Architecture and Support team to learn best practices and report any issues.

Required

• Strong understanding of Azure DevOps flow from both application and infrastructure perspectives.
• Experience in cloud management, diagnostics, and monitoring with Zabbix or similar tools.
• Proficiency with Azure Services and Resources such as VMs, NSGs, VNets, Application Gateways, Firewalls, and AKS.
• Experience with containers (Kubernetes/Elastic Container Service).
• Solid knowledge of version control and branching strategies.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools (Terraform deployment, pipeline creation, and troubleshooting).
• Strong Linux/Unix experience and troubleshooting skills.
• Network-level infrastructure knowledge, including security best practices.
• Good to Have Skills:
• Experience with Azure PaaS Cloud and Hive.
• Oracle and SQL Server administration and some SQL experience.
• Understanding of web core technologies (network, websites, video streaming, browsers) and TV and broadcast delivery.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies (e.g., Scrum or Kanban) as part of a team.

At Kantar Media we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration.  We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar Media, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients.  Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Interested? Apply today or get in contact with maria.bonal@kantar.com to learn more.