Data Engineer

Are you passionate about driving customer success? Interested in learning new technologies? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment? Do you love discussing new technologies to your friends and family? Check out this great contract opportunity for a DATA ENGINEER on a team of talented engineers located in 3 countries around the world.

Web Services Developer Support provides global technical support to a wide range of external customers as they build mission-critical applications on top of the client's web services. Dev Support is looking for a Data Engineer who will drive the team's strategy for defining the core data models that will be used throughout the Support org.

Developers in this position will use a variety of mainstream and open source technologies like MySQL, Oracle, Java as well as in-house technologies.

TASKS/RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Ownership of upkeep and operational stability of Oracle instances
- Work on a variety of development and maintenance projects in coordination with global teams
- Research and development on new technologies and approaches

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Innovative and unconventional approaches to systems architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability and scalability
- Knowledge of all supporting infrastructure components, including operating systems, hardware/storage configurations and networks
- Excellent UNIX skills and a grasp of fundamental computing concepts such as system calls, memory management and program debugging
- Knowledge of MySQL and MS SQL and previous experience in database migrations.

EXPERIENCE:

- Database Platforms Relational Database experience, 1 - 2 years
- Database Platforms MySQL, 1 - 2 years
- Database Platforms PostgreSQL, 1 - 2 years
- Miscellaneous Database Administration, 1 - 2 years
- Operating Systems/APIs Linux, 1 - 2 years
- Programming Languages Shell Scripting, 1 - 2 years
- Specialties Data Modeling (Required), 1 - 2 years
- Specialties Data Warehousing, 1 - 2 years