Data Engineer / DBA: big data (Bristol) TL118

Ready to shape, run and develop a fast-growing data mining platform?

Fresh8 Gaming needs you to build on our solid foundations in data operations, helping us scale up our behaviour-based content serving platform. This is a hands-on job, informing our data vision, shaping our architecture and data operations, and looking after our databases.

You'll be supported by our engineering team and have freedom to choose and implement best practice methods and to employ the latest technologies, enabling better data accessibility for our software engineers. You'll also build and grow our data pipeline to support us in insights, analysis and data integrity. We can support your transition from another technology family.

You'll be joining our friendly, capable team, collaborating on a mixture of client projects and product roadmap initiatives to get the most from the possibilities from data science and machine learning.

Our software stack is predominantly open source - written in Go - and is structured as a service oriented architecture. Data storage is in Elastic for statistics and metrics, with queueing system data stored in Redis. AngularJS and Node.js are used for our CMS solution.

What you’ll do:
  • Help transform our data warehouse using state-of-the-art data infrastructure components to enable our engineering, analytics and product teams to incorporate data insights into our product and BI tools
  • Build out and expand our ETL infrastructure and automate and validate as much of the data pipeline as possible
  • Create data products using Ruby and Golang that go beyond SQL capabilities
  • Monitor systems downtime and respond quickly to failovers, bringing the database back to normal operation
  • Reduce the load on Redshift by analysing usage patterns
About you:
  • You learn quickly, you're a self-starter, and you ship quality code
  • You bring some relevant programming skills, having previously developed data driven systems
  • You're experienced with NoSQL architectures and you bring proven DBA skills, transferring from any of: MongoDB | Cassandra | Hadoop | HBase | ElasticSearch | BigQuery | CouchDB | MySQL | PostgreSQL | Spark | Storm | Riak | Mahout | MLib | DynamoDB | etc
  • You have strong ETL and scripting skills, e.g. Ruby or Python
  • You have a Computing or numerate degree from a well ranked University, or excellent earlier grades
  • You may be considering other senior jobs in Bristol such as: Big Data Engineer | NoSQL Data Engineer | Big Data Developer | Data Warehouse Engineer | Data Warehouse Developer | ETL Developer | Database Administrator | DBA
Salary and benefits:

  • £45,000 – £65,000+ negotiable
  • Flexible and home working | Unlimited holiday | Great opportunities to grow your skillset using the latest technologies | Personal development time and resources | Conferences budget | Choose your own hardware
  • Travel season ticket loan | Cycle scheme | Team outings | Make contributions to open source

About us:

Fresh8 Gaming is a funded start-up technology company with big ambitions. Our intelligent software makes smart ad-serving decisions to serve the most relevant content to users, based on a deep understanding of their preferences. Being voted ‘Best start-up in Europe’ by the gaming industry, and with Tesco amongst our FMCG customers, we’re expanding into Europe, the US and Australia. Currently with 17 staff in London and Bristol, we need talented people who can become the future of our business.

Locations:

central Bristol, by Temple Meads

Please talk with techfolk, our recruitment partner, to find out more:

0117 318 2447 | [email protected] | http://twitter.com/we_are_techfolk

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