You will play an important role on a product team to performance tune the Pentaho ETL Server, install, configure cron job monitoring tool.
The Digital and eCommerce team currently operates several B2B websites and direct digital sales channels via a globally deployed cloud-based platform that are a growth engine for Merck's life science business. We provide a comprehensive catalog of all products, enabling our customers to find products and purchase products as well as get detailed scientific information on those products.

Top 4 Must Haves:
1. Pentaho
2. ETL
3. Cronitor scheduler
4. Light Weight Processes

Required Skills:
• 8-10+ years of hands-on Server side, SRE experience
• Recent experience in Pentaho, ETL
• Ability to provide solutions based on best practices.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work with global teams and a flexible work schedule.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills and be customer centric.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have skills:
• Experience with Big Data tools and big data handling
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Amazon Web Services, etc.)
• Experience in product-oriented engineering development teams is a plus
• Familiarity with web technologies (e, g, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), data manipulation (e.g., SQL), and version control systems (e.g., GitHub)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices/principles, Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and the product development lifecycle
• Familiarity with modern web APIs and full stack frameworks.
• Experience with Java, Google Analytics, BigQuery, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, in memory caching are a plus
• Experience developing eCommerce systems - especially B2B eCommerce - is a plus.

Responsibilities:
• Work as part of an Agile development team, taking ownership of performance tune(heap, memory, cpu), upgrades of Pentaho ETL Server.
• Have a high-quality software/infrastructure mindset - making sure that the changes you implement works
• Experience in Cronitor scheduler, Optimized resource allocation based on constraints.
• Experience in Light weight process (LWP)


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