Senior Systems Engineer Database Architect

Senior Systems Engineer (Database Architect) - RDBMS, Data Storage, Application data flow, E-Commerce, MySql

Location:

The Netherlands

Salary:

€60,000 - €80,000

Please note the following: Note, this position is only open to EU/EEA candidates and international candidates who are able to travel within European Union, United Kingdom WITHOUT visa restrictions. We cannot provide sponsorship.

My client is currently seeking a proven Senior Systems Engineer to join their team of developers and IT technical specialists in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The number of opportunities to solve new problems and build new systems makes my clients establishment a fascinating place to work, and they are looking for the best professionals out there to keep building upon the company’s success!

My client uses technologies such as: Perl, Python, MySQL, Redis, Hadoop, Puppet, uWSGI, Apache, ElasticSearch, F5 BigIP, and NetApp; and they develop many of their own systems.

You will be involved in a wide range of systems engineering activities, focusing mainly on the company’s technical infrastructure and database systems. My client tends to work on a larger scale and at a higher level of complexity than their competitors, which means their engineering problems become even more interesting!

Ideally you will possess skills in the following areas:

• E-commerce and business support systems design and architecture, including data storage, application data flow, and integration into existing systems.
• Ownership of IT objectives set from business priorities and strategic IT development areas.
• Technical leadership for end-to-end development and implementation of new projects.
• Research, testing, and implementation of prototype systems, with hand-over to operational technical teams for further development and systems integration.
• Technical troubleshooting and problem resolution, both of urgent tactical problems and of longer term strategic issues.
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS in a web services environment, including MySQL. Knowledge of related technologies such as NoSQL key-value stores, Hadoop, Hive, and HBase would be of significant benefit.
• Systems management and automation techniques and technologies, particularly principles and open source components, and experience in improving systems management and scalability.
• Knowledge and experience of improving design and operations practices and techniques, preferably in rapidly growing organisations.
• Measuring and tracking system load and scalability, to know the load capacity of systems and pro-actively prevent scalability issues becoming serious problems.

The successful candidate is likely to have a varied combination of the following:

• Significant commercial exposure of Linux and MySQL
• Significant commercial experience of working within a successful, profitable e-commerce enterprise with high growth and agile development practices
• Proven capabilities in working on wide-ranging projects with varied responsibilities

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