Database Operations Engineer

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Who We Are At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.

We Align To a Set Of Values That Are The Core Pillars That Define Our Culture And Help Bring Our Brand Purpose To Life

• We are stronger as one:
  We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act decisively for our customers and partners.
• We deliver on commitments:
  We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
• We learn, improve and innovate:
  We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
• We are inclusive:
  We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.

The Information Technology organization is the technological foundation of our business. It collaborates with partners across the company to drive technology and digital transformation, design and execute strategies through IT and operations services, and ensure IT risk management and security measures are in place and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and principles.

The Database Operations Engineer role is responsible for the administration of enterprise database systems and ensuring that application databases perform optimally according to service level objectives, verifying the integrity and availability of all system resources. This role includes database configuration, migration, upgrade, monitoring, query tuning, security compliance, troubleshooting, backup and recovery. The candidate should maintain current and future business objectives and bring design and maintenance of state-of-the-art database environments, especially in the following technologies:
Oracle Exadata, MSSQL Server, AWS Database Services, Snowflake and Cassandra.

• Thought Leader and change agent who understands the big-picture business strategy and builds database systems and platforms that support strategic goals and roadmaps.
• Maintain database infrastructure; collaborate with the Enterprise Shared Services team and Enterprise Architecture to shape a technology lifecycle strategy for all database platforms.
• Build and maintain a secure environment with controlled privileged access, review and attest to entitlements, and ensure security and compliance with IT Risk and Compliance; respond to audits.
• Provide technical support for mission-critical databases running on Oracle, SQL Server, and other enterprise DBMS.
• Develop, configure, and install database management systems; plan and implement new instances and schema creation.
• Apply security best practices, schedule/configure/install upgrades and patches.
• Determine backup strategies, schedule backups, diagnose and resolve backup failures, and perform test restores for recoverability.
• Review and advise on system design for High Availability and DR/BCP capability.
• Diagnose and resolve database problems; proactively tune performance to meet SLAs.
• Provide technical assistance to developers for database-related code and connectivity; review designs to ensure adherence to standards.
• Provide periodic training to IT teams on DB best practices.
• Ensure compliance with Change and Security management policies, audits, and SOX; ITIL incident, problem and request management.
• Dev Ops aware and capable of packaging, validating and promoting DB changes via the Dev Ops pipeline; proficient in Dev Ops tools and process orchestration.

• 5+ years of professional IT experience supporting large enterprise databases.
• Bachelor’s or higher degree
• Experience supporting 24x7 operations
• Exceptional project management and delivery skills
• Clear understanding of ITIL
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows, UNIX/Linux, networking and major database technologies (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, AWS RDS, Cassandra)
• Strong hands-on database security and risk mitigation techniques, and performance tuning
• Experience with industrial…