Job Title: DevOps engineer

Location: Dordrecht

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About Department:

The Production Technology Department is responsible for the product data and publishing workflow systems and manages content related projects. Together with our internal Springer IT colleagues as well as external software development vendors, we ensure that the systems are further developed and available for the day-to-day business of Springer Nature colleagues worldwide.

About Role:

The DevOps engineer role is a fantastic opportunity to work on a versatile range of products which are critical for the publishing business. You are a full stack senior developer with full-time development and operational maintenance responsibilities working together with product owners, architects, delivery and other IT teams located all over the world. You will setup, monitor and maintain the health and stability of the environments for our core business applications and services built with different technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining and managing applications within Springer Nature to ensure quality and continuity from operational perspective

  • Participating in the assessment of user problems and desired application adjustments

  • Proactive monitoring of applications to optimize continuity

  • Installing, testing and upgrading new and existing applications in Documentum and Mendix

  • Assisting and cooperating with product owners of applications to ensure proper release and patch management.

  • Giving advice to team members and train them on the job

  • Feeling great responsibility and taking initiative within the team

  • Developing, maintaining and enforcing application related documentation

Experience, skills and qualifications:

Essential

  • 3-5 years of experience with hands-on technical development/programming

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

  • Excellent knowledge of programming languages for scripting used in automation of complex product environment automation. 

  • Excellent knowledge of Operating Systems; Windows/Linux

  • Knowledge of SQL and crafting of SQL queries

  • Knowledge of Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab etc

  • Knowledge of shell scripting, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss and Java basics

  • Knowledge of applications in the cloud and its architecture (Google/AWS/Azure/Openstack)

  • Experience regarding performance tuning and troubleshooting

  • Experience in performance and fine tuning of environments

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

Desirable

  • Knowledge of on premises applications and migrating from on premises to cloud

  • JIRA/Confluence knowledge is a plus

  • Knowledge of software and infrastructure security

  • Knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and knowledge about the coherences when modeling databases and querying them

The position is offered on a full-time, Hybrid, permanent basis and will be located in our Dordrecht office.

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