Data Platform Engineer

Company Description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

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**Job Description**:
The Data and Analytics Platform team is looking for a Data Platform engineer who will help us design and maintain the technologies that will link a diverse set of users, including data scientists and actuaries, across the whole enterprise.

R and its supporting infrastructure are critical components of the Data & Analytics platform. This core component, which has users throughout our whole organization, facilitates the delivery of crucial business operations as well as advanced analytics and end-user reporting.

Ideally you combine a profound interest in multiple technologies, and therefore offer a wide range of skills, rather than being a specialist in a single topic.

**About the role**:
Your will be responsible for the following duties:

- Maintain the cloud R Platform projects including Docker images, CI/CD pipelines and other cloud services.
- Participate in the further development of the Data and Analytics Platform.
- Provide and establish best practices to the R Development community.
- Strengthen synergies with other IT departments.
- Assist with the continued integration of the cloud infrastructure into the overall Data and Analytics Platform.

**Qualifications**:
**About you**:

- Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science or a related science/engineering.
- You have three or more years of relevant experience.
- You have strong experience in developing in general-purpose languages (Python, R).
- You are familiar with SQL and database concepts.
- You are comfortable working with the Devops methodology and associated technologies.
- You have a deep understanding of the Linux/GNU operating system: Process handling, memory management and IO devices.
- You can create and maintain:

- Declarative CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or similar).
- Complex docker images: Nested images, efficient layering, container networking and many volumes.
- Infrastructure as code projects (Ansible playbooks or similar).
- You have previous experience with any of the major public cloud providers.
- You can communicate clearly with a broad range of professionals with varying technical knowledge.
- You have basic networking skills: Firewalling, packet forwarding and proxying.

Additional Information

PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. We invite you to learn more about D&I at PartnerRe.

Thank you,

PartnerRe Hiring Team