Big Data Support Developer

About us

Ubisoft Bucharest has been an important pillar for the local gaming industry since, being the first Ubisoft production studio outside France. It has a strong history of contributing to iconic AAA franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Watch Dogs and Just Dance, and has helped develop a total of over 60 games. Today, the studio is the 2 nd largest Ubisoft studio worldwide and continues to tackle the biggest challenges in gaming and technology, contributing to the creation of new and amazing games.

The IT Department of Ubisoft is looking for a Big Data DevOps/Support position in the Global Network Service - Business team. You will participate in the support of the Data Lake team, supporting data pipelines, processes and applications to fulfill business objectives. The Data Lake team enables the centralization and management of all Ubisoft raw data in near real-time, and make that data available for various uses like data warehousing, analysis and exploration.

The role of this support position is to ensure stability of existing pipeline and processes as well as suggesting improvements and optimizations.

Your tasks:
• Support existing real-time and batch data ingestion pipeline
• Analyze the data sources and perform data exploration;
• Shares acquired skills with team members through formal and informal channels;
• Proposes ideas of improvement of the applications, procedures and technologies used;
• Ensures reporting to his/her manager and communicates and escalades warnings;
• Support the good working of developed applications in all environments through interaction with Ops teams and/or set up of continuous integration and deployment tools;
• Identifies and troubleshoots system deficiencies and recommends solutions;
• Increases applications operating efficiency on a regular basis;
• Creates technical documentation, is quality driven in term of deliverables;
• Actively contributes to corporate knowledge base;
• Suggests system improvements and offers alternative solutions to the different problems that may appear;

Your profile:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any other related field is preferred;
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in DevOps/Support position within a professional IT environment.
• Excellent Knowledge and experience of Linux and scripting;
• Knowledge or interest on Cloud/Container technologies is an asset (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible);
• Knowledge or interest on Big data technologies (HDFS, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, etc.) is an asset;
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (adheres to a solid and reusable object oriented design);
• Knowledge or interest on Scala is an asset;
• Git source control usage;
• Understanding of web services & APIs (REST, SOAP).
• Availability to join rotation on-call support when necessary;
• Fluent in English (French is an asset);

Desirable personal skills:
• Strong analytical skills;
• Excellent communication and organization skills;
• Problem solving and questioning skills;
• Persevering, autonomous, takes initiative;
• Capacity to multitask and perform on strict deadlines;
• Quality, services and result oriented;
• Easily adaptable to changes and proposals;

We offer:
We want you to give your best, so we have a bonus system based on performance.
We look forward to your development, so there are various Training and Knowledge Sharing programs to choose from.
We are proud of our games and we would like you to feel the same way: you’ll have access to the internal library, to goodies and games.
We want you to feel great at the office, so there are various utilities in UBISOFT building, such as a fully featured Gym, large Cafeteria, recreation rooms, bike rental service etc.
Since we value health you’ll have access to private medical system, and to the doctor on-site.
And, most of all, we guarantee you’ll enjoy our atmosphere and working environment!
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide. With more than 6700 employees, and 26 studios in 18 countries, Ubisoft has the second largest internal creation force in the world.
Ubisoft Romania is the first Ubisoft production studio outside France. The Romanian adventure, which began in 1992, has turned into an exciting success story where Production, Test and Information Technology Department are its driving force.
Come and join our team of over 1600 professionals and help us create highly appreciated video games!