Cloud-Based Data Engineer for Transportation Logistics

5 days ago


Reading, Pennsylvania, United States Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P. Full time

Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P. is seeking a skilled Cloud-Based Data Engineer to join its Information Technology team.

About Us

We are a leading global transportation services provider with over 50 years of experience delivering world-class technology solutions and award-winning products. Our success is built on the expertise of our people, who work together to keep our company and customers moving forward.

Job Description

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that drives business growth through innovative data solutions. As a Cloud-Based Data Engineer I, you will participate in guiding and supporting development teams as they implement and deploy applications on cloud or on-premise platforms. Your responsibilities will include troubleshooting issues, building, scaling, and maturing the DB2 for i platform, leading the design of certain platform components, and suggesting new technologies based on industry trends.

You will also collaborate with software development teams, product owners, and senior members of the staff to understand business and application requirements and provide suggestions based on platform best practices. Focusing on high-level and technical systems design, you will work with Architects and Engineers to build and maintain a robust environment for application development, deployment, hosting, data storage, and ingestion.

  • Act as the primary contact and lead support associate for multiple critical components of the platform and help resolve customer issues in a timely manner.
  • Collaborate with platform product owners and play a critical role in end-to-end Operations Management of Application/Data Platform as a Service.
  • Collaborate with technical/business leaders and platform product owners to acquire and understand requirements/acceptance criteria and provide platform stability.
  • Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and high availability planning.
  • Recommend observability standards and enable platform observability through logging and monitoring.
  • Triage production issues and work with multiple teams to perform problem analysis.
  • Run through query review workflow.
  • Identify poorly running processes in production - CPU, plan cache analysis.
  • Execute data fixes.
  • Help with overnight DB deploys.
  • Perform ongoing research to explore new features, versions, and related technologies, and provide recommendations to enhance our offerings.
  • Document standard run books and operating procedures and assign/review tasks from junior and offshore associate engineers.
  • Participate in conducting new hire interviews.
  • Work closely with the project team and report clearly and accurately to management.
  • Build and maintain stable working relationships internally.
  • Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you must have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent years of software development/system administration experience required.
  • 8-10 years of industry experience with knowledge of IBM i server and Db2 for i platform administration and programming languages required.
  • 5+ years of hands-on DBA experience working with DB2 for i.
  • 3+ years of experience with relational database (RDBMS) and OLTP/OLAP concepts.
  • Basic IBM i navigation - ACS, Schemas, Run SQL, plan cache, calling a program, stored procedure, creating UDF, etc.
  • Writing complex SQL queries that use joins, sub-selects, with statements.
  • Demonstrated ability to support and administer high volume and high velocity application/data environments.
  • Strong experience with relational database (Db2 for i, a.k.a DB2/400) administration.
  • Experience with build management and continuous integration tools preferred.
  • Understanding of DevOps concepts.
  • Professional demeanor works effectively in a team setting.
  • Knowledge and experience of the Agile software development methodology.
  • Aptitude and desire for learning new technologies and concepts.
  • Ability to estimate medium to large-sized platform activities.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job.
  • Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history), and drug screening are required.
Salary

The estimated annual salary range for this position is $120,000-$150,000, depending on qualifications and experience.

EEO Statement

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.



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