Consultant Data Engineer

Join Sia’s Data Science team in Amsterdam as a Data Engineer Consultant. The team is young, diverse and growing, with a flat structure that values entrepreneurial spirit, initiative, well-being and knowledge-sharing.

As a Data Engineer Consultant, you will be working on various client projects as well as on building Sia AI solutions together with the French Data Engineering team:

• Cloud services on GCP, AWS and Azure: architecture choices, use of storage and compute services, cost monitoring and optimization, role management, Infrastructure as Code
• Docker and Kubernetes: containerization and orchestration of applications, management of Kubernetes clusters adapted to Data Science workloads
• Python programming: development of server-side tools such as bulk data processing, REST API servers and authentication
• CI/CD: managing the integration and ongoing deployment of applications and internal platforms, supporting the deployment of Data Science projects at client sites
• Data pipelines: development of ETL scripts in Big Data environments
• Infrastructure and services adapted to Machine Learning: technology watch and implementation of solutions useful to Data Scientists in the learning and provision of their ML models

Qualifications

• You hold a Master’s degree with a strong quantitative component, such as Econometrics, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or Quantitative Finance
• You have 1–3 years of relevant experience in Data, DevOps, Cloud or Software Engineering
• You have a good level in Python and a solid foundation in other languages. You are familiar with at least one SQL DBMS, ideally PostgreSQL, and ideally NoSQL, ideally MongoDB
• Ideally, you are already familiar with at least one cloud services platform, such as GCP, AWS or Azure, with experience combining different services within the same project. If not, you have a strong appetite to learn more about these topics
• You are comfortable using Docker, automating CI/CD pipelines and have a strong appetite for gaining competence in Kubernetes if you do not yet have experience with this solution
• You are able to work in a DevOps culture, taking responsibility for the code lifecycle from development to deployment and maintenance of applications. Mastery of the Gitlab-CE ecosystem is a plus. You are also familiar with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools, ideally Terraform
• You are sensitive to security issues and have experience implementing application protection solutions such as certificate management, HTTPS security, OAuth2 authentication and credential management
• You have a strong interest in data and AI-related topics, the ability to quickly build expertise in these areas, and you’re excited about helping clients seize the opportunities they offer
• You have excellent interpersonal and team-working skills
• Excellent English and Dutch verbal and written skills are required

Additional information

We are unable to provide a work permit for this position.