We, in the Platform Engineering team, are searching for an enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineer who is ready for an exciting career!

About The Team

Our team focuses on running and engineering the data platform (called Stargate) of the biggest global reinsurer, holding more than 6 Petabytes of data. Our systems process hundred of billion of rows, whilst daily consuming multiple terabytes from other data-source systems. Our mission is to optimize data ingestion and Big Data pipelines, improving their reliability and performance, while guiding thousands of customers on how to make the best use of these capabilities.

We reserve time for studying, building knowledge, attending conferences, and we organize our own upskilling sessions as well. In addition to projects for our clients, we also work on innovation projects/hackathons which allow us to learn new methodologies and gain fresh experience. The ideal candidate will eventually take full responsibility of the infrastructure tasks of the team, making sure our systems are efficiently fine-tuned to its needs.

About The Role

The team participates in a variety of interesting initiatives. Among the ones that the candidate will work on are:

• Architecting, optimizing and configuring terabyte-scale ingestions in a day-to-day basis. Stargate is a polyglot platform, ready to consume data from multiple sources including REST endpoints, Azure blob storages or billion-rows large Relational Databases.
• Designing, implementing and maintaining network infrastructure to handle terabytes of daily traffic in an efficient manner.
• Extending and Improving Immutable Infrastructure used to ingest hundreds of a data-sources daily in a multi-cloud environment. The team works on improving ingestion infrastructure resilience, which means creating methods to avoid configuration-drifts and reducing maintenance windows. This comes together with ensuring that the cloud is efficiently provisioned and configured.
• Promoting, implementing and aid customers integrating their ingestions to Stargate. The team often mentors many different type of integration scenarios based on multiple customer requirements. Typically engaging with the internal clients and help them finding the best method to materialize their business requirements.

About You

Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of requirements. If you however meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of data engineering, we will be happy to meet you.

In order to be successful in the role, you need to ideally have these technical skills and knowledge:

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or proven track of experience in the field.
• Knowledge of Python programming language and bash scripting.
• Deep knowledge of Linux administration, cloud infrastructure, networking and DevOps related topics (e.g. network connectivity, firewall, OS security patches, physical/virtual memory usage, etc).

If you also have the following experience and interests, it is a huge plus:

• Experience in databases optimization (e.g. load analysis, query planning).
• Interest and be willing to learn high-performance-computing/ Big Data/ algorithms/ more technical python.
• AWS/Azure/GCP/Cloudera certificates.

We look forward to receiving your application!

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

The minimum gross monthly base salary for this role is 3 200 EUR full time.

Our final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group. You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based bonus.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

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