Team Lead Databases

As a Team Lead of the Databases team within the Hosting & Deployment domain at Coolblue, you and your team are responsible for our databases in the cloud.

How do I become a Team Lead Databases at Coolblue?

Do you like to provide infrastructure as code? Help other Coolbluers to optimise their day to day work? innovate and initiate helpful ideas with your team? then this is the place for you. Besides that, if you enjoy learning, exchanging feedback and having open conversations with everyone, we are happy to have you.

Want to become a Team Lead Databases at Coolblue? Sunniva will explain how to do that.

You enjoy doing this

• Spending time coaching your team, but you also like to get in the trenches yourself.
• You like to work on cutting-edge technology and to build nice things with it.
• You like to make sure our databases continue to meet the organization’s ever-changing, ever-growing needs.
• You like that every day is different, and every day a little better.
• You enjoy listening to your team and colleagues and thinking together to come up with optimum ideas.

You recognize yourself in the following

• You have experience giving feedback meetings and motivating/coaching colleagues.
• You have at least 2 years of experience in a similar role.
• You’re genuinely interested in your people and help them to realize their ambitions.
• You’re a heavyweight when it comes to programming, with a passion for designing software  and for databases.
• You have experience working with CloudFormation or a similar tool, such as Terraform together with the mindset of providing infrastructure as a service.
• You have experience with systems for continuous integration and continuous deployment, such as TeamCity, Jenkins, and/or code deploy.
• You have experience with systems for automated configuration management, such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or Saltstack, and you know how to work with Git.
• You can automate tasks and have experience with script languages like Python, Powershell, or Bash.

This is what you’re looking for in a job

• Money.
• With over 30 training courses in our own Coolblue University, you can become a little better every day.
• A discount on all our products.
• 25 leave days. As long as you promise to come back.
• Travel allowance and a retirement plan.
• A picture-perfect office at a great location. You could crawl to work from Rotterdam Central Station. We recommend just walking for 2 minutes, though.
• A job at one of the fastest-growing companies in the Benelux.