We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
Job Functions:
Working on global projects with a focus on digital distribution of music and video – working as senior engineer in an international team.Communicating with internal and external customers as part of the agile software development process and issue management.System monitoring & management: Reacting to alerts, analysing bottlenecks, rebalance workloads and adjust system configurations.Error analysis & bug fixing: identify system or input issues followed by code fix, testing and deployment to staging and production environments.Infrastructure management: Scale in / out of servers, adjust autoscaling configurations, working with AWS support in case of issues.Actively take over implementation of (micro-) services, frameworks and API's using tools like Swagger, Spring and BPM Workflow Engines.Supporting other team members with your technical experience and expertise, contributing with new ideas and improvement to enhancements of our distribution services."We build it, we run it" – Operational responsibility for global music distribution services in UMG.
Job Requirements:
Skills/Abilities:
Passionate about solving problems with software and highly motivated to write code.Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with team members, clients and other IT areas.Solid understanding of IT infrastructure technologies (networking, storage, DNS, load balancing)Ability to work under aggressive deadlines and meet project commitments
Experience:
Strong relational database skills, ideally Oracle and Postgres including development of stored procedures (PL/SQS, PL/pgSQL).Experience with complex XML and JSON documents and its validation techniquesExperience with Linux operating system and its tools (shell scripts, ssh, sftp, strace, lsof…)Experience with object oriented programming languages (ideally Java or .NET)Experience with cloud services, ideally Amazon Web Services. (Deep understanding of IT infrastructure technologies, Linux and Windows required)Experience of working in a media centric company is a plusExperience in leading a team (on-shore or off-shore) is a plusStrong experience with object oriented programming languages (ideally Java and its popular enterprise frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, JEE..)Experience with design, implementation and operation of large scale applications leveraging cloud services, ideally Amazon Web Services. (Deep understanding of IT infrastructure technologies, Linux and Windows required)
Education:
- Degree in computer science (or related field) and/or at least 5 years' experience working in a professional software development environment, ideally combined with operational responsibility
Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.
