AWS Daatabase Engineer

Location: Chennai

EXP: 7

AWS Database Engineer

This Database Engineer role requires experience working in a service oriented environment a high sense of ownership of the projects and tasks assigned focus on managing and resolving issues in a prompt & efficient manner establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.

Responsibilities:

• Working with other members of the Database Services and external development teams to deliver projects specified in our company roadmap
• Owning tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests across the following database platforms (PgSQL SQL Server Opensearch Redshift)
• Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs.
• Reviewing service-related reports (e.g. database backups maintenance monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure operational issues are identified and resolved promptly.
• Responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.
• Identifying opportunities for process improvement including enhancing automation for database platform provisioning
• Enhancing database monitoring & alerting platforms to ensure proactive alerting is always achieved.
• Promotion of database engineering best practices within our cross-functional development teams.
• Coaching / mentoring junior engineers.

Youll need to have:

• Five or more years experience with management & operations of Database technologies & services with the majority of your recent experience in the AWS platform.
• Strong analytical & problem solving skills
• In-depth experience in one or more of the following Technologies operating in a high-volume high-throughput environment.
  • PgSQL
  • Opensearch/ElasticSearch
  • Redshift
  • SQL Server
• Experience with the above technologies to include but not limited to the following:-
  • General Database Administration Tasks
  • Database Troubleshooting & Performance Reviews
  • Database & Index Design & Maintenance
  • Design & Maintenance of Partitioning
  • Database Upgrades
  • High Availability & Disaster Recovery Options
  • Performance Tuning & optimisation
  • Security Hardening & Access Provisioning
  • Monitoring & Alerting
  • Experience in managing database platforms which operate regulatory controls such as GDPR/CCPA/CPRA HIPPA SOCII etc.
  • Experiencing in designing development & maintaining CI/CD pipelines for AWS Infrastructure & Database Code deployments (using services such as GIT Bamboo Powershell RedGate Flyway Cloud Formation Templates etc.)
  • Ability to troubleshoot software hardware & service related issues.
  • Excellent organizational skills & attention to detail
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to coach mentor and influence team members through the necessary database disciplines

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A bachelors or associate degree in management information systems computer science or a related field.
• Strong experience in agile/lean methodologies and processes (ideally Kanban or scrum) leading process improvements and engineering disciplines.
• Deployment & operational support experience in any of the following
  • SQL Server
  • DynamoDB
  • GraphDB
  • Redis
• Experience managing defect backlogs and requirements management with relevant tools (e.g. JIRA).