Senior DevOps Database Engineer
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
We are currently looking for an exceptional Senior Database Engineer, to join our mission, to improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome.
As Senior Database Engineer, you will be responsible for the DB management of highly available and resilient database infrastructure on one or more leading cloud platform, preferably AWS.
You will have considerable experience in a Cloud Infrastructure DB Engineering role, working on a regional scope, preferably within a fast-paced multinational organization.
You will excel in cloud-based deployment, support, and the management of multiple cloud-based database platforms.
You will be able to provide knowledge and expertise in administration, configuration, optimization, and monitoring of database servers at scale.
Essentially, you will be able to work in a dynamic, collaborative regional team and will be comfortable liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities will include:
- Being part of the team s 24/7/365 global support of on-premises and cloud DB servers in a follow-the-sun model; provide on-call support responsibilities.
- Monitor & measure the performance & availability of platform proactively, and implement automated corrective actions identified to improve performance & availability.
- Monitor & maintain the standard configuration of the DB platform at scale; provide corrections and rightsizing while informing the relevant parties.
- Collaborate with partner support teams to remediate production issues with high urgency.
- Collaborate with the IT Security and Engineering teams to audit, document, and support RBAC on the platform.
- Conduct root cause analysis & implement and develop automated pro-active measures. Monitor effectiveness of implemented measures.
- Support multiple CI/CD database releases and deployments.
- Support development teams for enhancements, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
- Use and improve workflows and procedures to ensure consistency and auditability in a managed database infrastructure.
- Design, develop, implement and manage the database platform automation in Sprint cycles.
- Work within and enforce security and regulatory compliance procedures.
- Developing, managing and testing database backup and recovery plans. Perform database preventive maintenance and execute annual DR exercise.
Preferred background, skills, and experience:
- 5+ years of database administration experience supporting Snowflake, MS SQL Server
(MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB is a plus). - 3+ years of experience supporting Snowflake environment; implementing features of Snowflake like RBAC access controls, data sharing, cloning, integration with different tools.
- Knowledge of security architecture implementation, data governance/classification in warehouse (preferably Snowflake).
- Experience with compliance/security controls for database systems.
- Expertise in troubleshooting DB servers problems and performance.
- Knowledge of cloud database platforms, preferably AWS.
- Knowledge of DBMS/Warehouse concepts and technologies.
- 3+ years of expertise with Windows and Linux server platforms.
- 2+ years of experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform in CI/CD methodology, git.
- Deep knowledge of SQL programming
- Demonstrated knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as Bash/PowerShell, and Python.
Education:
- Bachelor s degree in computer sciences or related technical discipline
- AWS Certification and/or Azure Certification (AWS is preferred).
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