Booking Holdings Romania - Junior Enterprise Application Engineer - Sys Admin

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

Role description

Junior Enterprise Application Engineer - Sys Admin focuses on developing technical skills and understanding the corporate technology landscape to achieve high-impact solutions. They assist in configuring, deploying, and maintaining enterprise applications [Tableau, Slack, DocuSign, DocuShare, JIRA, Confluence, Asana, etc] and infrastructure. Additionally, experience with SaaS applications is a plus. Contribute to the smooth operation of the enterprise, and supporting product implementations to aid colleagues' day-to-day tasks. Their responsibilities include designing and delivering technology solutions based on business requirements, deploying and monitoring code/configurations in production environments, troubleshooting system issues, and contributing to the team's engineering and operational practices.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

In the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of technology, this role is pivotal in ensuring the stability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems. This roles demand a blend of technical acumen, critical thinking, and effective communication to maintain and enhance the reliability of our infrastructure and applications

• Automation and Toil Reduction: Awareness of the need to keep infrastructure current, reduce technical debt, and prepare for scaling. Experience in leveraging new technologies and automation to reduce costs and human labor.
• Continuous Quality and Process Improvement: Awareness of opportunities for process and system improvements. Experience in designing and implementing improvements to enhance business performance.
• Monitoring and Alerting Improvements: Awareness of the need to continuously monitor production systems and network infrastructure. Ability to improve application reliability by setting appropriate observability metrics.
• Production Systems Best Practices: Ability to secure production systems and ensure compliance with company policies and industry standards. Experience in documenting system architecture and writing runbooks to reduce the impact of live production issues.
• Architectural Guidance: Awareness of non-functional requirements and networking concepts. Ability to advise on technical solutions that meet functional and architectural requirements.
• Mentoring and Coaching: Awareness and experience in mentoring, coaching, and guiding colleagues to improve overall performance by sharing knowledge and approaches to work.
• Critical Thinking: Ability to identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations and find solutions through logical and analytical thinking.
• Effective Communication: Experience in delivering clear and meaningful information to a target audience using suitable communication mediums. Ability to achieve mutually agreeable solutions through adaptable communication and active listening.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Computer Science (or related field) degree and 1-3 years of relevant work experience
• Basic knowledge with scripting languages such as: Python, Bash, etc.
• Relevant experience with Enterprise Applications (e.g. JIRA, Tableau, Slack, DocuSign, DocuShare, Confluence, Trello, Asana, etc)
• Excellent English communication (written and spoken) skills

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, the pre-employment screening may include employment history, education, and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.