InnoGames is one of the leading German developers and publishers of mobile and browser games and a certified Great Place to Work®. The Hamburg-based company was founded in 2007 and is now part of Modern Times Group (MTG). Together with about 350 employees from 40 nations, the company founders develop unique games that provide many years of fun for millions of players around the world. InnoGames is best known for Forge of Empires, Elvenar and Tribal Wars, but the company is continually expanding its now 10-game portfolio across platforms and genres. Most recently, InnoGames launched Heroes of History, a novel mix of city builder and hero collection RPG and Cozy Coast, a feel-good beach adventure with elaborate merge-2-gameplay and a captivating story.
Your Mission
- 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.
Your Skill Set
- 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.
Your Power-Ups
- Flexible working hours. We offer trust-based working hours as well as active breaks - play table tennis with your team, work out in our gym or go to our rooftop terrace to get some fresh air.
- Hybrid Working Model. We offer our colleagues the flexibility to choose between working from home and our modern offices in central Hamburg. With regular times planned together at the office during our Office Days, we keep up our unique InnoGames spirit!
- Compensation & Fair Play. We have career models as well as market-competitive salary grids in place that ensure that we treat our employees fairly. For this position, the salary range is between € 75,000 - 96,000 gross on senior-level. On regular-level the range is at € 58,000 - 75,000 gross. Your seniority level (junior, regular, senior) will be evaluated during the interview process.
- Career opportunities. Level up with excellent training and development opportunities, such as e-learning, hard- or soft-skill trainings from our InnoVersity or industry conferences.
- Outstanding benefits. Get 28 vacation days, a sabbatical, mobile device, contribution to your public transport ticket, and more.
- Team of specialists. Be part of a stable, growing, and award-winning global company. Meet your future colleagues in Development & IT.
- Team events. Participate in regular team events (e.g., wine tasting, cooking, paintball), barbecue together on our rooftop terrace, and enjoy regular company-get-togethers like the InnoConf.
- Relocation assistance. If you are interested in relocating to Hamburg, we will help you relocate to Hamburg regarding all the needed resources.