NOW HIRING: HRIS Reporting Analyst

Company: Delta Dental
Website: https://www.deltadentalins.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States


At Delta Dental, our strategy is only as strong as the people who execute it! We are hiring individuals that are not just right for today but also for our future. We have built a foundation of high-trust by treating all people with dignity, making and keeping commitments, and consistently striving to do the right thing. Our leaders optimistically share future possibilities to inspire and motivate others toward their full potential. We expect our employees to find ways to embrace positive change, be curious and challenge the status quo, and provide solutions to unmet problems. Joining Delta Dental means joining a culture focused on fostering development, building genuine connections, recognizing each other’s strengths and sharing in successes.

The HRIS Reporting Analyst is responsible for utilizing established reporting and analytical skills to build custom reports, dashboards, and analytics. This position plays a durable role throughout the development life cycle and includes gathering and documenting business requirements from key customers and stakeholders, creating reports, data models, dashboards and analytics, and participating in the overall planning that will ensure the analytical and reporting needs of the business are met.


How you will make an impact:

• Consult with the business to understand their requirements and translate them into actionable and meaningful metrics.
• Create effective visualizations that clearly tell a story (graphs, charts, tables, dashboards etc.) using MS Excel, Tableau and other analytics tools.
• Build complex reports and dashboards using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and BI Publisher (BIP).
• Configure or edit workflow notification templates in HCM Cloud.
• Build reports using SQL and PL/SQL languages.
• Build data models in HCM Cloud.
• Configure and maintain alerts in HCM Cloud using Expression Language.
• Perform testing and provide maintenance and support for the Oracle HCM Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) products during release upgrades.
• Establish best practices and guidelines for usage of the Human Capital Management Business Intelligence tools.
• Write detailed technical and functional design specifications for reports and alerts.
• Perform other job-related duties as requested.

What we look for:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and/or experience.
• A minimum of 3 years Oracle HCM Cloud Fusion experience.
• Knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL and Expression Languages.
• Intermediate/expert level of knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Tableau and/or other Business Intelligence tools.
• Experience in business analysis in a technical environment, supporting multiple small to large teams of business and IT staff.
• Experience supporting HR/People function a plus.
• Experience with ERP reporting and Splash BI a plus.
• Previous experience with design and development of Business Intelligence functions related to the Oracle HCM Cloud solution.
• Extensive knowledge on Tables and the underlying architecture of the Oracle Database Management System.
• Business Intelligence expert experience in working with Technologies such as Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP).
• Extensive knowledge on Expression Language and the Alerts building tool in HCM Cloud.
• Successful history of performing evaluations of historical trends to provide predictive insights.
• Successful history of applying organizational context to recognize data inaccuracies and to ensure consistency and highest quality of data and analysis.
• Must be able to build technical documentation and maintain requirements and specifications for each report built.
• Must be able to identify, clarify, and resolve issues in reports and alerts as well as improve on aspects of existing reports such as runtime, logic, formatting, performance etc.
• Strong critical thinking, abstract reasoning and hands on technical skills.
• Highly developed organizational skills to function effectively while still maintaining attention to detail and meeting established deadlines.
• Must be able to work in a high stress fast paced environment managing multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Must possess ability to prioritize conflicting duties and maintain timeline integrity for projects and tasks.

Benefits and perks:

• 12 days starting vacation plus 11 holidays and your birthday off!
• Multiple medical insurance options: 100% paid or low cost premiums
• 100% paid dental insurance
• 100% paid vision insurance
• Onsite gym and/or gym discount and fitness incentive
• Culture of learning: substantial tuition reimbursement to improve your skills
• Career growth: we love promoting from within
• Strong commitment to work/life balance
• Technology allowance
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities

Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.



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NOW HIRING: WordPress Support Engineer

Company: WordPress VIP
Website: https://wpvip.com
Headquarters: Remote


Our customer-facing WordPress support role requires a mix of debugging and development experience as well as outstanding communication skills. You’ll be working directly with both client and agency developers, side-by-side with our Senior WordPress Engineers, on some of the highest-profile and highest-traffic WordPress sites in the world.

We are looking for people with compassion, writing skills, accountability, WordPress knowledge, and code savviness.


A day would involve:

• Maintaining the quality, accuracy, and thoroughness that is part of our high-touch, concierge, technical support.
• Helping clients and teammates via tickets and real-time discussions using a variety of research, debugging, tools, processes, detailed error reporting, and documentation.
• Solving tough problems with client sites, themes, and platform tools that often deal with edge cases and WordPress internals at scale.
• Handling fast paced situations and one-off projects involving complex dependencies, multiple partners, and tight deadlines.
• Observing and relaying chances to make our platform, services, and overall offering more appealing.
• Building and updating internal and client-facing documentation.

Required skills:

• Excellent communication skills. We’re a distributed team, so frequent and clear written communication is vital.
• Self-motivated work ethic. You should be a self-starter who loves taking initiative and seeing things through to completion.
• Curiosity and the desire to learn. Keeping up to date with changing WordPress and technology trends on behalf of the VIP team and clients, often training others once you’ve become proficient. Flexibility is key.
• Proficiency and eloquence in written English. Additional spoken or written languages can be beneficial.

Useful skills to have:

• Patience, grace, and a sense of humor!
• A deep knowledge of WordPress and some of its plugins, themes, and WP-CLI.
• A strong understanding of the Web; including familiarity with PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST APIs, HTTP, DNS, and SVN or Git.
• Experience working primarily in a customer-facing role, including support and training.
• Superb troubleshooting skills that help you take big problems and break them down into manageable pieces with elegant solutions.
• Understanding of issues around scalability and performance.
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as Kibana and New Relic.

Diversity:

We want to build Automattic as an environment where people love their work and show respect and compassion to those with whom we interact.

Diversity typically includes, but is not limited to, differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political and religious affiliation, socio-economic background, cultural background, geographic location, physical disabilities and abilities, relationship status, veteran status, and age.

To work on diversity means that we encourage these differences, and strive to improve the visibility of traditionally underrepresented groups. Read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.


Benefits:

• Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy, and to spend time with friends and family.
• Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
• We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books or conferences that promote continued learning.
• Company-sponsored life insurance.
• Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been with Automattic for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
• WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
• Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
• We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get together one to three times per year in locations around the globe.
• Other benefits are country-specific and include health, vision, and dental insurance; matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection; travel insurance; and discount offers.

How to apply

Support is provided 24/7 so an ability to regularly assist with weekend coverage, as well as some holiday and evening availability, will be a requirement. Our customers are global, and rely on us to provide expedient support, at any time of day. This is a full-time position.


If this sounds of interest, follow the instructions below to submit your application:

Write a cover letter to let us know what you can contribute to the team. Proofread! Make sure to spell and capitalize WordPress and Automattic accurately. We are lucky to receive hundreds of applications for every position, so try to make the application stand out.

If you want to increase the chances of standing out then, in your cover letter, tell us where you heard about this position. Tell us about your thoughts about what makes for an excellent enterprise-level client experience, and how you’d help a client with an urgent issue who provides very few details.

Describe an interesting problem you’ve worked on, and anything you’ve created or changed to resolve the issue or make it better.

Once happy, view the source code for this page and locate the div with the class code-is-poetry. Visit the URL enclosed within that div.

If you’re reading this on a site other than wpvip.com, please visit wpvip.com/careers for the latest details on applying.



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NOW HIRING: DevOps Engineer

Company: Kinsta
Website: https://kinsta.com
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, United States


Location: Remote

We are looking for a motivated and professional DevOps Engineer to help us maintain the best performing hosting architecture on the market.


You will be instrumental in making sure our architecture is always on the bleeding edge of technology remaining stable and high performing at all times. This involves:

• Optimizing server provisioning
• Fine tuning our servers on a system level and an application (WordPress) level
• Ensuring high scalability as the number of created VMs increases on our network
• Overseeing and ensuring smooth running and completion of server-wide updates
• Ensuring optimal software communication between our server architecture and our hosting platform (MyKinsta)
• Acting as an escalation point for our SysOps team if a bug or issue proves to be particularly difficult
• Creating tools to prevent or mitigate instances of high load, ensure security and stability throughout the system

Requirements

• 4-year undergraduate / Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or computer science
• 5 years of experience working with Ubuntu
• 3 years of experience writing Bash, Python and Ansible scripts
• 3 years of experience with the standard WordPress stack (PHP, MySQL, WordPress)
• Experience with WP-CLI
• Experience with Nginx
• LUA scripting knowledge
• Excellent general understanding of Linux, cloud networking and server management
• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud based server architecture
• Strong experience automating against firewalls and network infrastructure (iptables)
• Experience working with ELK stack
• Technical awareness and ability to quickly understand new technologies

Bonus Skills

• Deep knowledge of LXC
• Experience working with ZFS
• Database query optimization
• Having worked in JIRA
• Good understanding of APIs and web services

Benefits

• We offer a relaxed working environment where everyone can work in peace
• We do not have any investors and we do not work directly with clients. This means we rarely have any deadlines and have the luxury of thinking features through and implementing them correctly instead of quickly.
• Everyone has a voice in the development process.
• We have an amazing design (UI and UX) team so development receives fully researched and designed tasks.
• We work with only the newest and best technology.

Source: We Work Remotely, Kinsta

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