Senior Engineer, Database Engineering

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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):
10  S&P Global Market Intelligence
The   Role:  Senior Engineer, Database Engineering
The Team:  We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Engineer, Database Engineering (DBA) to lead the design, implementation and maintenance of our mission critical database environments. The Senior DBA will be responsible for ensuring production stability, driving cloud database initiative on AWS, mentoring junior DBAs and shaping database strategies to meet business and technology goals. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres SQL and MySQL.
The Impact:  This is an excellent opportunity to join Enterprise Solutions as we transform and harmonize our infrastructure into a unified place while also developing your skills and furthering your career as we plan to power the markets of the future.
What's in it for you:  This is the place to hold your existing Database, Infrastructure, and Dev Ops skills while having the chance to become exposed to fresh and divergent technologies (e.g. AWS/ Snowflake/ Terraforms/Python)
Responsibilities:  The DBA will maintain and optimize SQL Server 2016/2019/2022, Oracle 12c/19c, Postgres 14/15/16 and MySQL databases hosted in AWS environments such as Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Aurora. The role requires expertise in database performance tuning, security, cloud-based best practices and ensure continuous availability The DBA will collaborate closely with developers, system administrators, and Devops teams to ensure efficient database integration with business applications.
Production Stability and Reliability
Own the stability, performance and availability of all production database environments.
Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis and prevention strategies.
Define and enforce database operational standards, guardrails and best practices.
Database Management & Maintenance
Administer and maintain SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre

SQL, MySQL databases hosted on Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2.
Perform database installations, patching, and upgrades on AWS infrastructure.
Configure and manage multi-AZ deployments, Read Replicas, AOAG, and Data Guard to ensure high availability.
Manage SQL Server Always On configurations for improved failover and availability.
Implement database partitioning, compression, and indexing strategies for performance optimization.
Performance Engineering
Conduct deep performance analysis at the system, query and indexing levels.
Recommend and implement architectural improvements for scalability
Guide application teams in schema and query optimization.
Backup & Recovery
Design and implement automated backup strategies using AWS Backup and RDS Automated Snapshots for SQL Server.
Use Oracle RMAN for Oracle database backups and recovery.
Develop and test disaster recovery plans using AWS DMS and Cloud Endure.
Monitoring & Alerting
Configure proactive alerts for performance issues, storage limits, and availability risks using Cloud Watch and AWS SNS.
Collaboration & Documentation
Collaborate with developers, cloud architects, and Dev Ops teams to integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines.
Document database architectures, configurations, backup strategies, and recovery plans.
Automation & Innovation
Drive automation of operational dba tasks using Power Shell, Python, AWS CLI or similar tools.
Evaluate and implement new database technologies, monitoring solutions and optimization tools.
Tools & Technologies
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), SQL Developer, TOAD
Shell scripting, Power Shell, PL/SQL, PG/SQL
Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation
Goldengate, AOAG, DMS, Data guard

What We're Looking For:

Oracle Certified Associate (OCP)
Microsoft Certified:
Database Administrator
MySQL Certified:
Database Administrators
Postgre

SQL Certified:
Database Administrators
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10+ years of experience as DBA

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