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JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Principal Database Engineer is an Aurora PostgreSQL Database and Automation engineer and is responsible for supporting all aspects of the design, build, and support of the cloud database environments through automation. The Principal Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the environments are performing optimally and align to best practices for security and resiliency.
The Data Engineering team designs and builds secure, resilient, recoverable, and reusable frameworks to support the entire database life cycle. The team focuses on continuous service improvements to increase the quality of service and speed of delivery.
The Principal Database Engineer is an Aurora PostgreSQL Database and Automation engineer and is responsible for supporting all aspects of the design, build, and support of the cloud database environments through automation. The Principal Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the environments are performing optimally and align to best practices for security and resiliency.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Support and manage the Aurora PostgreSQL database environments
Automate the build and support tasks across database technologies (i.e. Oracle, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL)
Adhere to best practices on Incident, Problem and Change management
Lead projects independently with minimal guidance
Responsible for managing and supporting Aurora PostgreSQL database platforms working closely with AWS, application support teams, and infrastructure teams
Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain database instances on AWS
Recommend and implement database security policies
Recommend and implement database backup, recovery, and redundancy strategies
Implement automated procedures to proactively handle issues and alerts
Perform database performance analysis, capacity planning, system sizing and ongoing maintenance
Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk and escalates appropriately
Demonstrates reliability by taking necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals.
Applies global perspective when working within a team by being aware of working styles and ensuring all relevant parties are involved in key team tasks and decisions
Articulates information clearly and presents information effectively and confidently
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum of 8 years of related experience, with a minimum of 5 years of related PostgreSQL experience
Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience
Strong knowledge on AWS cloud technologies; AWS certification would be a plus
5+ year experience managing large scale Aurora database environments
Strong performance Tuning and Optimization skills including re-writing SQLs for optimal performance.
Extensive experience with Automation using Terraform, Ansible, Chef
Strong knowledge of operating systems (Unix / Linux / Windows)
Hands on experience with Shell and Python scripting to automate tasks enabling self-healing capabilities
Strong experience with partitioning and handling large databases
Understands inter laying technologies like OS, Networking, Applications, and its impact to databases
Part Time