Job description

At Transporeon, A Trimble company, our focus is on digitalizing and transforming transportation for all. We created the Transportation Management Platform, a diverse portfolio of freight applications that equally serves all participants in the network. We have grown significantly over the years, reaching €150m in revenue before being acquired by Trimble for $2 billion USD in 2022.

As a part of Trimble's Transportation&Logistics segment, we continue our journey to create efficiencies in transport execution that have a positive impact on the economy, boost individual business results and benefit the environment.

You can find more information about Transporeon as an employer here: https://www.transporeon.com/en/career

Our System Engineering team is looking for a new colleague taking over the responsibility for database management.

Our team is ready and waiting with ...

meaningful and challenging tasks every day: together with your colleagues you are responsible for operating, maintaining and extending our highly available, heterogeneous platform
ownership of the conception, technical design, as well as installation, configuration and clustering of our PostgreSQL database systems
challenging tasks in keeping our databases performance on a very high level through monitoring, profiling, database analyses and optimization of database queries and schemes
a role of consultant for your colleagues in software development and a partner for our database architect
automation of various tasks using Ansible and Puppet, ownership of the whole stack from software up to server hardware
encouragement to curating knowledge about our systems, because like that you enable the support team to have your back while you jump on your next challenge

Our tech-stack…

80% private and 20% public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Dell, HPE, WM Ware
Linux, Debian
Ansible, Baracuda
Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab
PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Elastic Search
Kafka

What you should bring to the table ...

readiness to become part of our team which is together securing the stable environment for our running digital platforms with a special focus on databases
offer at least 2 years of experience in database administration, ideally PostgreSQL, but as well RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL, ...)
knowledge of Ansible and Puppet and an experience in operating heterogeneous server farms
you are familiar with containers, cloud and tests for your own code
you enjoy challenging tasks, because you see opportunities of improvement rather than unsolvable problems
you are a Linuxer, however, if necessary you are able to fundamentally administrate a Windows system
as we offer hybrid as well as fully remote possibility, you are self driven, well organized and internally motivated to fulfill your tasks as well as connect with your team

Our Inclusiveness Commitment
We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

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