Data Engineer

At Western Bulk the Data Science and Engineering team works as a start-up within a traditional industry. We make use of the latest technology to sustain a commercial edge in a highly competitive and global shipping market.  Join us on our journey!

When working in a start-up, each team member should be able fill multiple roles, but also strive to be or become a specialist within at least one field. We are seeking someone that will become a specialist within Data Engineering, but who also wants to learn Data Science and Devops.

As a Data Engineer on AWS cloud you will be working to build, migrate, maintain and modernize the applications and data on our AWS platform.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Participate in Design and architectural discussions.
• Work collaboratively with the team to gather and define the requirements.
• Convert the requirements into business logic and deploy it on AWS using the suitable service.
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code using CDK (cloud deployment kit) or CloudFormation.
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas.
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems.
   

You have the following skills:

• At least 2-5 years of experience in python programming and fair understanding of big data and spark (Pyspark is preferred).
• Should have experience of building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, Batch, Lambda, Glue, RDS, Redshift, CloudFront, S3, etc.)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements.
• Expertise in using and managing Jenkins for CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation or CDK.
• Experience with Docker, GitHub.
• Ability to write SQL queries is must.
• Fair understanding of designing and building rest api’s on AWS ApiGateway.
• An understanding of data warehouse and star schema data model will be an added value.
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of opensource technologies and tools.
• Knowledge of Data Science workflow and common tools.
   
  

Western Bulk can offer a result-driven, transparent and highly flexible workplace with a flat structure and progressive culture that reflects the Scandinavian heritage of the company.  For further information about the position, please contact Martin Hjelle, CDO, martin.hjelle@westernbulk.com.