Opportunity

Senior Data Engineer - Postgres

Description

Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our business, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, we are developing solutions in-house that meet customer needs across the whole Supply Chain E2E. Joining Maersk you will join a global leader in Container Logistics as we embark on an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize trade.
You’ll play a vital part in our success, helping us re-think what technology can do by using the latest technologies, and building the experience to advance your career. If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious, culturally diverse team of 3000 People within Maersk Technology – on a great transformation journey – then apply today!

The role of the Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer within our Technology Services Engineering Team, you will be a key driver and doer in a fundamental shift in how we architect and host our application estate to ensure that we can take our platform operating model to the next level. You will be an advocate to enable a composable technology foundation which will enable our Product development teams in building our digital foundation of the future to help delivering for our global customer base.

Your focus will be on both assisting in the ideation and realisation of what our next generation platform will encompass, as well as then helping our Product teams in implementing products that are aligned to this long-term Platform vision.

To realise Maersk’s “One Customer Journey”, a consistent and resilient platform is essential. You will be key in helping promote ‘the right way’ in how we utilise technology in delivering on this promise.

To help to make our next generation platform successful, we are looking for key individuals to join our Technology Services Engineering team to help shape this vision and be pivotal in transforming how we do business with customers and vendors.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will demonstrate the following characteristics: -

• You have proven background in delivering complex, high performance, highly available solutions
• You are creative and come up with innovative approaches to projects and any issues that arise.
• You are a “do’er”. You get things done.
• Sharing expertise and insight with other engineers

Currently the tech stack is not 100% fixed but we have a strong preference for commercial experience of opensource plus cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will have a background that spans development, architecture, and operations. We are looking for full stack engineers with preference for staff that can provide expert coverage over three primary areas, plus some ability across all areas.

• DevOps – Github, Terraform
• Backend – Python, RESTful API, process orchestration/choreography
• Database – SQL and NOSQL (key-value, document, graph, timeseries). Proven knowledge on (preferably more than one): PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j
  • Virtualization – KVM, AHV, Vmware
  • Operational System – RHEL, Windows
  
  
• Domain driven design experience and understand how to create composable microservices and API’s
• Opensource – Track record of community activity and contribution

Key Responsibilities

• Execute technical, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies.
• Work on our problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs and help drive our platform vision forward
• Handling and automating day to day administration tasks including systems reporting and system tuning
• Good understanding of programming and scripting, with the ability to create targeted, ad-hoc custom solutions to specific problems the ability to design and write larger-scale applications able to function on a large server estate
• Execute technology roadmap with the associated release goals. Execute POCs for new and upcoming strategic technology solutions.
• Works in collaboration with other engineers
• Representation of Maersk in external technology events and conferences.

Key Skills

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering
• 8+ years of experience of engineering experience at scale
• Experience with diverse operational systems both on prem (virtual and physical) and in Cloud IaaS and PaaS (Azure and Google)
• Develop and implement solutions using Python (or other programming language), CLI, PowerShell
• Experience in system performance analysis, tuning, and troubleshooting experience, including complex queries as well as procedure and indexing strategies
• Experience with both commercial and open-source databases products, including migration from one product to another, upgrades, and hosting migrations
• Experience with different operational systems and backup solutions
• Proven experience with High Availability, clustering, failover
• Proprietary or vendor agnostic certifications are a plus
• Experience in helping leading development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud-based micro services
• Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic, and a strong desire to write production quality code.
• Knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, networking, and software development best practices.
• Experience of designing systems or components on projects
• Experience of working with offshore teams
• Experience of Test-Driven Development approaches
• Passionate about learning new tools, languages, philosophies, and workflows