Overview

Our client’s Service Platform Maintenance team is currently seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join their team. The team develops, designs and delivers high quality business applications, software solutions, and services to meet business technology requirements. A successful candidate is self-motivated, learns quickly, and has a passion for developing quality software.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a high performing, cross functional team to develop a framework for Data & Analytics application best practices using a hands-on approach to implementing automation as a problem-solving mechanism.
• Drive a DevOps mindset across the Data & Analytics Support team, driving and managing execution of scalable CI/CD and automation initiatives.
• Design and document a repeatable approach to automated deployment
• ETL tools like Talend, Informatica and related visualization tools like Tableau and Qlik Sense
• Provide thought leadership and hands-on development of standardized utilities to manage production environments building generic, reusable utilities for various operations teams to leverage.
• Measure and monitor Service Level Targets, Service Level Agreements, availability, and system health.
• Engage in and with development process to ensure that teams continue to build monitorability and maintainability into their systems.

• Migrate SVN repositories to Git and develop Git Workflow process using Python.
• Build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

Qualifications

• Interest in automating manual / routine tasks through analyzing, troubleshooting, optimizing and standardizing current state processes across the organization
• Excellent written and verbal English skills.
• A passion for problem solving and a strong analytical mindset.
• Ability to assess a situation and provide recommendations for continuous process improvement.
• Expertise in software engineering, cloud technologies, and DevOps best practices specifically in areas such as: continuous integration and continuous delivery, configuration management, and Platform monitoring.
• Solid understanding of web technologies such as HTTP/S, JSON, FTP, SSH, and REST
• Working experience with querying common databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Redshift) and creating schemas to support automation initiatives
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Preference for one of the following:
• Strong experience with GIT / BitBucket
• Strong experience with Jenkins, Puppet/Chef
• Strong experience with Bash / Shell scripting and / or Python