Country
Germany
Job Family
Technology
At GfK, we are on a mission to drive sustainable growth for our people, our clients, and the world around us. We combine prescriptive insights and consulting expertise to analyze, explain and predict what is happening in today’s fast-changing world.
Our employees, the shapers of tomorrow, are empowered to bring new bold ideas to life by connecting unique datasets, science, and digital research. We encourage innovation and offer global career and fast development opportunities. This is why the world’s largest companies and leading brands know GfK as their trusted partner.
Job Description
Work in partnership with our software engineering teams to build and operate the next-generation infrastructure to support the GfK product portfolio.
Work extensively with GCP (Google cloud platform) and related cloud technologies.
Collaborate with the product development squads to enable them to test and deploy software rapidly whilst ensuring the highest standards of reliability and security.
Automate the build and deployment of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes & other orchestration technologies in a hybrid-cloud environment.
Influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, cost and high-performance.
Set up and maintain monitoring, metrics and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting and also create and maintain appropriate backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data.
Expert Linux administration skills and deep understanding of networking and TCP/IP.
Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS.
Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Excellent knowledge of technical architecture and modern design patterns, including micro-services, serverless functions, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, etc.
Demonstrable skills in a Configuration Management tool.
Ability to set up and support CI/CD pipelines and tooling using Gitlab.
Proficiency in a high level programming language such as Python, Ruby or Go
Experience with monitoring, log aggregation and alerting tooling (Stackdriver, Prometheus, ELK).
Experience with Flux/2 and/or Argo is preferred, but not required.
Contributory pension plan
Hybrid working with 2 office days per week
Discounts for a number of gyms
Cycle to work scheme
Referral bonus’
Eyecare and eyecare voucher
Employee Assistance Program
Tax-free childcare
Summer and Christmas parties for all staff
We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal opportunity in employment which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential. GfK is looking for self-starters to join our innovative team keen to take on a new challenge.
If you are interested and want to be part of the digital revolution, apply today. We are looking forward to meeting you!
Don't meet every single requirement? Some people are less likely to apply unless they meet all the requirements listed in a job specification. GfK is looking for self-starters to join our innovative team keen to take on a new challenge. So, if you're excited about this role but your skills and experience don't align perfectly with every requirement we've listed, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal opportunity in employment which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential. We are looking forward to meeting you!
