ABOUT US: ENGINEERING ENABLEMENT

The Engineering Enablement (EE) department consists of around 60 people, spread over teams that closely collaborate to fulfil our mission. In Springer Nature Technology (SNT) we serve different core expertise: PaaS, Databases, Observability and Cloud- and Release Engineering. You will join a multidisciplinary team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. We are a very distributed department but sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We are based around the globe with main locations in London, Dordrecht, Berlin, Lisbon and New York.

ABOUT YOU

You are a friendly team member who is modest and humble, open to learning from anyone regardless of age, gender, race, role or experience. You value social interactions and can self-reflect by asking questions. You are self-confident and smart, but never a smart-ass. You have a strong preference for working together, sharing knowledge and training others as opposed to quickly getting things done alone.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge and experience administrating with MongoDB.
• Familiarity with one or more of the following technologies with a desire to expand on this knowledge: MySQL, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Marklogic, or Pinecone
• Strong understanding of database architecture, backup and recovery, and performance tuning.
• Experience with database clustering and replication mechanisms.
• Familiarity with cloud-based database platforms, ideally GCP.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in automation and configuration management.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience of working with Cloud SQL
• Experience working with Google BigQuery
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform
• Unix shell scripting or programming experience.
• Experience with vector databases
• High user and customer orientation
• High sensitivity for security-relevant issues

We are looking forward to your application. After reviewing your CV our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to schedule a short initial phone/video call. After getting this first step we will run 2-3 rounds (introductory, technical, cultural) with you - all of these with different members of the Engineering Enablement team. When appropriate these phases will be held via phone /video calls.

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Internal applicants: We encourage you to speak to your manager once the interview process has started. At the point of offer acceptance, it is required that you inform your manager. If for any reason you’re unable to do so, please contact HR who can provide guidance as required.
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• Maintaining and improving the database systems in production and development environments.
• Provisioning, configuring, patching, upgrading, and maintaining databases in multiple platforms.
• Automating the management of new and existing databases to ensure that processes are repeatable and scalable.
• Monitoring and optimising database performance, including configuration, resource usage and query tuning.
• Ensuring high availability of databases through clustering, replication, and other techniques.
• Taking an active role in supporting and in finding the root cause of operational issues and preventing recurrences.
• Working with the team to document processes, procedures, and technical designs related to database management.
  In addition to database tasks, the team works together on the automation and infrastructure platform tooling. Upcoming planned work in the team includes adding serverless (CloudSQL, Memorystore, etc) and vector databases (Pinecone) to our core tooling, improving security patching automation and introducing continuous deployment for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  You will have the opportunity to work on new challenges and drive the evolution of our services in a collaborative and supportive environment.