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Location:

Utrecht area

The organisation:

Our client is a company specialized in metocean consultancy and weather forecasting. They help their clients elevate their operational efficiency and calculate the weather risk on marine operations. Weather and wave information is crucial for people working at sea. They facilitates in this need by providing customers with both past conditions (climate) and future conditions (weather & wave forecasting). Our client uses a suite of proprietary software applications and applies certified analysis techniques on validated data from numerical model hindcasts and measured datasets.

They are expanding their business and are looking for an all-round Database Engineer to strengthen a small multi-disciplinary team of product developers, system administrators and numerical modelers.

Position:

Your main responsibility will be the design, implementation and maintenance of a (SQL) database infrastructure for both internal and client facing (web) applications. You will also work with business stakeholders to develop reports, analytics, and insights. As their operation works with vast amounts of numerical model and observational data, (re)structuring the data in such a way that it can easily be accessed by their consultants will also be one of your duties. Additionally, you will be involved in process flow redesign and the streamlining of associated data manipulation tasks.

Requirements:

* Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent (HBO, WO) in computer science or other technical science

* Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (preferably Postgres/PostGIS), including stored procedures

* Experience with designing and administrating databases in an Linux environment

* Experience with highly reliable, real-time services in a 24/7 operational environment

* Good communication skills in Dutch and English, both oral and written

* Willingness to participate in on-call rotation shifts to support our 24×7 operation

Preferred skills

Not required skills but would be beneficial to have:

* Experience with efficiently storing and querying large data sets (i.e. NoSQL or Array DBMS), datawarehousing

* Basic knowledge of Python and/or Perl

* Experience with providing data for RESTful web services

* Knowledge of data formats commonly used in meteorology and oceanography (i.e. NetCDF or GRIB)

* Basic knowledge of XML and XSLT

* Experience with the generation of PDF reports

What do they offer?

A varying and responsible job in an international concern that highly values the development of its employees. They offer a generous benefits package including a competitive salary, profit share schemes and a Defined Contribution pension scheme. You will have the opportunity to work on very interesting projects and to develop your knowledge as part of a highly motivated and highly experienced team.

Contact:

Interested in this position? Please contact Matt Nabil

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