Database DevOps Engineer - Online Games

Join our agile, cross-functional engineering team to push InnoGames' data-driven success story forward. You will work on large-scale ETL processes in our Hadoop ecosystem, cloud platforms and SQLServer based BI environments with the goal of making our data accessible to the whole company., * Maintain BI environment. Extend and maintain our cloud platforms and Microsoft SQLServer based Business Intelligence environment. Ensuring reliable operation of our BI services by monitoring system health, managing key data pipelines and PowerBI processes, and responding quickly to critical alerts.

• Data self-service. Provide company-wide self-service access to our data through PowerBI, as well as our legacy reporting stack (SSRS and SSAS).
• Cloud Platform Management. Manage our Azure Fabric and Power BI environments alongside Google Cloud Platform by overseeing capacity and costs, administering users and security, automating operations with Airflow, and continuously optimizing cloud spending.
• Process Big Data. You'll also have the opportunity to work on ETL jobs to process nearly 2,000,000,000 daily events from our various data-providing systems like games, payment, and marketing tools.
• Scale data warehouse. Last but not least, you'll help scale and further develop our Hadoop-based data warehouse in close collaboration with our Data Mining team, using HiveQL and modern Big Data technologies such as Airflow, Superset, Tez, and more.

• Professional experience. You have five years of professional experience in Database DevOps Engineering, software development or Data Engineering with a strong background in Python or Java.
• Big Data Cloud Services. You have experience working with Big Data Cloud Services such as GCP and want to learn more.
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. You bring practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure services and Microsoft Fabric since these are core to our Power BI and data platform strategy.
• Big Data focus. You have extensive knowledge of SQL (preferably T-SQL or HiveQL) and enjoy working with large amounts of structured and unstructured data.
• Technical background. You have already gained experience with Big Data technologies, ideally with the Hadoop ecosystem (e.g., Hive, HDFS, YARN, Tez), regardless of whether it's Bigtop, Cloudera, or any other distribution.
• SQLServer operations. You know your way around MS SQLServer administration and live operations such as performance monitoring, backup and recovery, and capacity management.
• Teamwork. You desire to learn new technologies, confidently share your knowledge with the team, and also like to share a good laugh with your colleagues.
• English is our company language. You look forward to using your excellent English skills in both spoken and written form daily.

Hamburg-based InnoGames is Germany's leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games and a certified Great Place to Work®. The climate-neutral company, which is part of Modern Times Group (MTG), was established in 2003 and is still run by its founders. Together with a 400+ strong team from over 40 nations they create unique games that provide millions of players from around the world with years of fun.

While InnoGames is best known for Forge of Empires, Elvenar and Tribal Wars, the company is continuously expanding its portfolio across genres and platforms. The most recent additions are Rise of Cultures and Sunrise Village, which saw successful commercial launches in early 2022.

In order to further expand our success and to realize new projects, we are constantly looking for young talents, experienced professionals, and creative thinkers.