THIS IS US

The Data Science department uses statistical modeling, machine learning and optimization techniques to continuously improve business processes at NEW YORKER. We work in agile project teams on a variety of use cases, including order optimization, pricing, distribution and logistics. We are a very ambitious and international team and are proud of our high standards. 

THAT'S THE JOB

• Work closely with the data engineering and data platform teams to maintain, operate and improve the infrastructure and pipelines that run critical data science projects on our on-premise Cloudera cluster
• Monitor and operate (including on-call duty) key data science pipelines (that rely on Spark)
• Monitor and analyze runtime behavior, including runtimes, resource usage and distributed communication error rates across all data science pipelines
• Maintain operating systems on our Cloudera cluster
• Monitor and maintain our cluster and promptly react to errors and outages
• Install and maintain the software and development environments required by the data science team on our Cloudera cluster
• Support the network and infrastructure team in optimizing network boundaries between various systems used by data science
• Liaise with our suppliers and network and datacenter services team to ensure hardware issues are fixed promptly
• Initiate, align, implement and enforce a logging and monitoring strategy to make data science project runtime characteristics transparent
• Define, align and enforce proper HDFS usage guidelines, including maintaining HDFS via appropriate retention periods and monitoring average HDFS block size count and over-partitioning in pipelines
• Monitor and manage Impala databases and tables
• Mentor team members, accept mentoring by team members, constantly align your work with your users, exchange constant feedback with your peers through insightful code reviews and grow together as a team

THAT'S WHAT WE NEED

• A Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• The willingness and ability to work in a team with strong communication and hands-on mentality
• The ability to think and work  in a well-organized, structured, independent and self-driven manner while aligning proactively with your team
• A strong software development background and strong programming skills
• Five or more years of working experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar position
• Extensive experience working with Hadoop clusters and with data storage (e.g. HDFS)
• Extensive knowledge in information systems theory (e.g. relational databases, distributed systems) and working with data (e.g. modeling)
• The ability to write efficient, well-tested code with a keen eye on scalability and maintainability in Python and bash
• Experience in software development practices and tools (e.g. Kubernetes, pull request reviews, CI/CD, agile as in agile manifesto not Scrum)
• Good Linux knowledge
• Speaking English fluently is a must-have, good spoken and written German is a plus

YOUR BENEFITS AT NEW YORKER

At NEW YORKER, you are more than just an employee - with our benefits, we want you to feel completely at ease right from the start, both professionally and personally.

Benefits.

• 30% staff discount in all NEW YORKER shops
• Access to corporate benefits with a wide range of offers
• Company fitness co-operation with Hansefit - nationwide discounted fitness and wellness offers
• Exclusive discounts at the OX restaurant in Braunschweig

Fairness.

• Flexible working hours for a healthy work-life balance
• Attractive remuneration & comprehensive social benefits
• 30 days holiday, company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits

Security & prospects.

• Permanent job in an internationally successful company
• Stable, fast-growing and future-orientated

Working together.

• Personal buddy for your successful start
• Onboarding events for the perfect start
• Company and team events for a strong sense of togetherness

Location & future.

• Very good connection of the headquarter (Hansestraße) to the A2/A391 motorway as well as free employee parking spaces at many locations
• You can already look forward to our Fashion Campus: a modern headquarter with inspiring workplaces that will be built in the coming years

GET IN CONTACT

NEW YORKER Group-Services International GmbH & Co. KG
Contact: Aayush Sarma | Recruiting Specialist
P +49 531 2135 - 5421
www.newyorker.de/Jobs