Operations Engineer

OPERATION ENGINEER

DURATION: 3-6 MONTHS POSSIBLE EXTENSION

LOCATION: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- Sound knowledge of some of the following areas: payments, cash management and financial markets is vital for this position.
- Sound knowledge of relational databases and ideally have looked after the operation of a critical production installation of Oracle including its performance tuning as well as backup/restore scripts and processes.
- Excellent knowledge of at least one modern Scripting language (Python, Ruby, Groovy). Knowledge of Python is big nice-to-have.
- Good knowledge of modern application Servers such as Nginx, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere.
- Good knowledge of enterprise level networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, SFTP, Proxy, Firewalls).
- Excellent knowledge of OS fundamentals with the ability to apply it in the context of modern operating systems, eg RHEL, CentOS etc.
- Good knowledge and real-world experience in provisioning environments with tools such as Puppet, Chef, Docker.
- Knowledge of NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra, while not mandatory, is a strong nice-to-have.
- Experience in the inner workings of the JVM, while not mandatory, is an important nice-to-have.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery using modern OSS tools such as Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Sonar.
- Performance/Capacity/Availability Monitoring, knowledge of well-known OSS tools in this area (such as Ganglia, Nagios, Graphite, and JMeter) is a big nice-to-have.
- CISSP certificate is a very important nice-to-have.