KB Europe is advising on a position for a Senior Database Administrator for a client of ours located in Hamburg, Germany. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Ensure availability of the (No)SQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle 11g, MongoDB
• Manage and monitor our database systems
• Design, document and implement monitoring improvements, performance optimizations, and backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Work closely with software architects to ensure top database performance
• Write scripts in Perl and on Shell
• Support colleagues carrying out general administrative tasks within Linux
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Several years of experience (at least seven years for the senior position) in database server administration, in particular MySQL running on Linux
• UNIX/Linux system administration experience
• Extensive knowledge in terms of supporting large, distributed web architectures
• Able to monitor Linux and optimize performance when impacting database operations
• Networking skills and able to work with centralized storage solutions
• Excellent written and spoken English and German
• Very good analytical skills
• Happy to tackle challenges as part of a team
• Experience in database virtualization using VMware would be advantageous
What we offer:
• A position at one of Europe’s most successful social networks with more than 12 million members
• A wide range of demanding tasks with excellent scope for personal development
• A corporate culture that sets great store on professionalism, teamwork and initiative
• Offices near the Alster lake in the center of Hamburg, flexible working hours, open and friendly colleagues
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
KB Europe is currently advising on an opening for a Build Engineer / Release Engineer. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking. The position is based at my client’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Provision of development and test environments
• Continuous improvement of build, integration and deployment processes, in particular by automating corresponding tasks
• Support contact for incidents relating to development and test environments
• Trainer for configuration management tools (e.g., Git, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other similar field
• 3-5 years relevant experience
• proficient with Git and at least one other configuration management tool (e.g., Puppet, Chef)
• Experienced with UNIX Scripting (e.g., Bash, Perl, Ruby)
• Thorough knowledge of Linux and networking (e.g., Apache, Phusion Passenger)
• Experience as software developer or system administrator is a plus
• Knowledge of Rails deployment tools (Capistrano) a plus
• Optional, but beneficial: Experience with virtualization solutions (e.g., VMware)
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluency in German, very good knowledge of English
What we offer:
• A position at one of Europe’s most successful social networks with more than 12 million members
• A wide range of demanding tasks with excellent scope for personal development
• A corporate culture that sets great store on professionalism, teamwork and initiative
• Offices near the Alster lake in the center of Hamburg, flexible working hours, open and friendly colleagues
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0) 207 731 4211
KB Europe is advising on a Ruby on Rails Developer opportunity for a client of ours located in Hamburg, Germany. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking. If you have a genuine passion for Rails and want to work for a cutting edge organization this is the opportunity for you.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Implementation of future additions to my clients platform
• Maintenance and improvement of the existing code base
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• You are passionate about writing Rails code.
• You know other programming languages but you’re crazy about Ruby.
• You like to stay on the cutting edge of web application development.
• You are into agile methodologies.
• You enjoy working in teams with a focus on sharing knowledge with other experts.
• You are fluent in English.
Plus:
• Contribution in open source projects
What we offer:
• Working on a high availability, high performance, high traffic website with more than 10 million users
• Working on large, distributed, asynchronous architectures
• Team centric software development (pair programming)
• We use Open Source software wherever possible and we contribute back
• Central location in Hamburg, near the beautiful Alster
• Free fruits and beverages
If this profile matches your expertise, experience and aspirations, we’d be delighted to receive your complete application, including salary requirements and a possible starting date.
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0) 207 731 4211
KB Europe is currently advising on a position for an outstanding Software Developer to work for one of the fasted growing, most respected companies in the Financial Services industry.
Tools Team Software Developer (London)
The job
As an outstanding Software Developer you will use your demonstrable success and interest in writing code and choosing, developing and maintaining tools to enhance my clients continuous software integration and deployment, and improve developer productivity. Working closely with other developers, operations and IT your responsibilities will include making decisions on areas such as Build, Code Quality, and Deployment Tools, IDE Support, Source Control, Continuous Integration Methods and Hardware Platforms.
Essential Attributes / Skills:
• Ability to write clean code
• Exposure to build systems (e.g. Ant, Gradle, BuildR), dependency management and product repository tools (e.g. Ivy, Nexus) and continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins , TeamCity)
• Demonstrable interest in developer tools
• Open Source experience and interest
• Use of Scripting languages such as Groovy
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving
Ideal Attributes:
• Tools and Continuous Development / Integration / Deployment experience
• Software development experience
• Worked in an Agile environment
• Finance domain knowledge
If you have the skills and experience as listed above and are looking for that next challenge in your career then please do apply immediately.
Applying
• Email your CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
KB Europe is currently looking for a Senior Software Developer (Web) to work for one of our clients. The client based in Leeds, is the global leader in their specialist field, working across 77 countries, and one of the UK’s most progressive companies.
The position has come about due to significant expansion of my client’s software development team. The successful applicant will join a busy systems development department working on both internal and client-facing systems.
Reporting to the Systems Development Manager the successful applicant will be involved in the design and development of Web applications.
Senior Software Developer (Web) – based Leeds
This is a technical hands-on role:
• Design and develop Web applications
• Program software to agreed functional and technical specifications
• Development-based unit testing of produced software
• Maintenance of existing systems and fix software quality issues
• Communicate status of development tasks as required
• Mentor and review development team members
Required skills and experience:
• 3+ years Web development experience in C# and ASP.Net, (2008)
• 2+ years SQL skills, preferably MS SQL-Server 2005/8 (inc. T-SQL)
• Exposure to new technology – e.g. ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, WCF
• Experience of working in a source code controlled environment
• Production of quality code to specification and deadlines
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
Desirable skills and experience:
• Experience of working with HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, JAVA
• Willingness to work towards Microsoft certification
• Awareness of Translation industry and practices
In return for your hard work and commitment my client offers an excellent salary, a commitment to training and professional qualifications, and an exciting opportunity to work with the latest technologies within one of the world’s fastest growing organisations.
If you have the skills and experience as listed above and are looking for a new challenge with a genuine market leader please send you CV immediately.
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0)207 729 6284
KB Europe is currently advising on an opening for an experienced Software Test Analyst. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking. The position is based at my client’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Quality control in an agile (Scrum or Kanban) software development project
• Close collaboration with developers, product managers, and project managers across the entire development cycle
• Preparation and specification of test case scenarios
• Test case automation
• Execution of manual and automated test cases and defect management
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other similar field
• Anywhere between 1 and 8 years’ experience in software quality assurance, preferably for web applications
• Experience with both manual testing and test automation tools (e.g., Selenium)
• Working knowledge of agile software development (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience with issue tracking systems (e.g., Atlassian JIRA, Bugzilla)
• Requirements management knowledge is a plus
• Linux knowledge is a plus
• Ideally ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Extraordinary attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fluency in both German and English
What we offer:
• Working on a high availability, high performance, high traffic, high attention web application with more than 12 million users
• Diverse tasks with a high degree of responsibility
• An organizational culture that values professionalism, collaboration, and personal initiative
• Central location, near the beautiful Alster
• Free beverages and fruits
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0) 207 729 6284
KB Europe is currently advising on an opening for a Senior Security Engineer. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking. The position is based at my client’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Test new features, review code, and supervise security audits
• Set up monitoring to identify attacks among data (experience with tools like Splunk and Nagios is a big plus)
• Elicit and define security-related processes, requirements and guidelines
• Evangelize security and secure software engineering
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other similar field
• 3-5 years of experience in the security industry, good knowledge of the security community
• Experience as a software developer or system administrator is a plus
• Solid understanding of web application development (e.g. Perl, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript)
• Thorough knowledge of Linux
• GIAC-GSEC, SSCP, CISSP certifications or similar knowledge
• Excellent communication skills
• Very good knowledge of English – German a Plus.
What we offer:
• A position at one of Europe’s most successful social networks with more than 12 million members
• A wide range of demanding tasks with excellent scope for personal development
• A corporate culture that sets great store on professionalism, teamwork and initiative
• Offices near the Alster lake in the center of Hamburg, flexible working hours, open and friendly colleagues
If you are looking for a new position and meet the skills and experience as listed above please send your CV immediately to:
kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
My client, a global leader in online business and social networking, currently experiencing incredible growth is looking for a Product Owner specializing in Social to work from their European HQ in Hamburg.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a B2B product strategy for all of the Advertising products on my clients platform with a focus on social advertising and self-booking
• Get involved in my client’s overarching frontend information architecture in order to integrate Advertising products aimed at B2C users
• Identify requirements and develop product concepts and specifications in order to implement the product strategy; Use customer feedback and prototyping to check these concepts
• Work closely with the core product team and other product owners
• Interface with other departments such as Advertising & Partnerships, User Experience, and Engineering
• Assume responsibility for the commercial success of your advertising products and use the Scrum process to coordinate with product owners during the implementation phase
• Introduce new product fields by driving innovation within the various advertising types and advertising platform based on a scalable backend and help to set up cooperation’s
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• At least 3 years of professional online experience with an excellent technical background
• Online product management experience, ideally in online marketing
• You are able to work with the User Experience and Engineering departments
• Excellent analytical skills aimed at identifying requirements in a structured way within the given technical parameters
• Strong communication skills and proven cross-functional skills combined with an excellent command of English
• Experience working within agile development teams would be advantageous
If this profile matches your expertise, experience and aspirations, please send through your CV immediately.
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0) 207 729 6284
KB Europe is currently advising on an opening for a Senior Test Automation Engineer. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking. The position is based at my client’s office’s in Barcelona, Spain.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for QA in our office in Barcelona working closely with our project teams to deliver functionality for my clients web site.
• Definition of test plans, design of test cases and test data for existing features and those still to be developed
• Manual and automated test case execution and evaluation
• Development of automated test suites
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• University degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering or similar scientific subject; or a comparative academic background and/or experience
• Experience of working in small closely knitted teams practicing agile methodologies like SCRUM or Kanban
• At least 3-5 years of experience working in test automation and/or software development in a QA context (Java, C#, Ruby or Python)
• Experience in test automation with Selenium
• Knowledge of testing web applications
• Sound understanding of version management systems (Git, Subversion)
• Ideally, previous experience working with Perl and/or Ruby on Rails
• Ability to self-organize and willingness to take initiative
• Willingness to sometimes travel to Hamburg, Germany to coordinate and do project related work
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent English skills
Advantageous:
• Linux skills (basic administration skills, bash, vi)
• In-depth practical insights into testing tools (e.g. Selenium, TestNG, Empirix, Mercury)
• Knowledge of web programming (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Apache)
• Expert knowledge of quality assurance of web-based software products
• German and/or Spanish a plus
If you are looking for a new challenge and this position is of interest please do send through a copy of your CV immediately.
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0) 207 729 6284
KB Europe is currently advising on an opening for a Senior Customer Relationship Manager. Our client is one of Europe’s most progressive companies specializing in Social and Business networking. The position is based at my client’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
Content responsibility:
• Responsible for increasing satisfaction levels among my client’s 10 million members
• Main focus on identifying levers to boost and ensure ARPU by means of upselling, cross-selling, prevention and retention, etc.
• To do this, you will work with the Business Intelligence department to determine the next best activity for each segment/customer to maximize customer value development and manage implementation of the defined measures
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
• Based on a systematic analysis of current market and customer research, KPIs and key process figures, you will help to devise targeted measures that can be used to achieve the company’s aims
• Actions plans will be analyzed in terms of business impact and then their implementation coordinated with the Product Management or using your own resources
• In terms of success monitoring, the effects of the measures and action plans will be made transparent with the aim of identifying levers and optimizing processes even further
• Identification of relevant levers and KPIs to steer the business; Create the required reporting requirements to implement them within Business Intelligence, and regularly analyze business development
• You will conduct root cause analysis of KPI developments as well as target deviations, define measures to be taken and tracking their progress
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• A degree in economics with a focus on marketing, controlling or other comparable form of training
• Enthusiastic about figures with analytical skill coupled with a target-oriented and pragmatic approach
• Excellent Excel skills; SPSS or knowledge of other analysis tools would be advantageous.
• At least 4 years of experience in marketing, CRM or segment management at a service provider (telecommunications company, bank, insurance company, Internet service provider, etc.)
• Data mining experience with a view to creating methods, interpreting data, and carrying out controlling work as a client
• Experience in designing and executing CRM strategies
• Experience in project/program management would be advantageous
• Highly dedicated and motivated, excellent business acumen, and able to work independently
• Confident manner and excellent presentation skills in both English and German
Applying
• Email you CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com
• Call Kevin on: +44 (0) 207 731 4211
My client, the World’s fastest growing FOREX Broker is now looking to hire an experienced Oracle DBA to work from their Global HQ in Cyprus.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the effective and uninterrupted operation of the Oracle Production, Test and Development databases.
• Maintain database integrity and security
• Work as part of the team of software development professionals to provide improved performance, functionality and capabilities of the Oracle environment.
• Manage and deliver ongoing improvements to the Oracle based management reporting system
• Deliver enhanced value in data analytics and management reporting through Oracle applications
• Manager and deliver ongoing improvements to the Oracle Grid control.
Key Attributes:
• Minimum 5 years previous experience as an Oracle DBA / developer
• Financial services experience is an advantage, Forex experience will be considered a strong advantage.
• Effective team player.
Applying:
• Email your CV to kevin.oreilly@kbeurope.com