Database Applications Developer - II

Job Description

America Networks is a leading sensor and networking solutions partner for companies in any Industrial, Manufacturing, and Waste management space.

We design and manufacture sensors for storage tanks, water metering, energy metering, gas monitoring, and asset management.

Our founders are hardcore telecommunications engineers with combined 200+ years of experience in designing, optimizing and performance engineering; for several mid – large wireless carriers internationally – that saw a need to provide low power, cost efficient sensors to collect data, create alerts, and predict needed actions.

We have combined these sensors with low power, wide area (LPWA) networking technologies to provide clients various options to decrease re‑occurring costs associated with operating an IoT network of sensors and connected devices.

We specialize in design, deployment, optimization, and support of these Networks. Whether an off‑the‑shelf or custom solution is needed, we’ll create a solution and push the data on the best cloud platform to fit your needs, including your own.

• Planning, building, implementing, and administering Python scripts to test and deploy Nosql clusters building scripts to validate database performance
• Ensuring optimal database performance through exhaustive pro‑active testing and ongoing real‑time monitoring
• Troubleshooting issues to resolution
• Testing database security and enterprise policy guidelines according to established best practices
• Monitor and maintain the backups for database recoverability for all production databases
• Work with responsible Engineer/vendor resources to implement fixes for identified database issues within agreed upon Service Level Agreements

• No
  
  Sql DBA with 3-5 years of experience in any of the following No
  
  Sql databases (Cassandra, Mongo
  
  DB, Couchbase, Redis)
• At least 2 years of DBA experience in an enterprise environment supporting all aspects of databases with emphasis on 2‑tiered and 3‑tiered architecture
• Strong experience in monitoring and tuning No
  
  Sql databases for optimum performance and assistance in capacity planning of database servers
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with the Linux operating system to be able to design high performance environment
• A minimum of 2 years of scripting (Python, Shell) experience
• Must possess excellent organization skills
• Must be able to prioritize and support multiple concurrent projects while consolidating inputs from multiple groups
• Able to work independently with accuracy and attention to detail
• Proficiency with MS Excel, Word, Power Point
• Commercial facing database/application support experience is desired
• RDBMS (MySQL, Maria
  
  DB, MemSQL, Postgre
  
  SQL) knowledge will be a plus (2 years)

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other related degree, relevant military experience
• Strong analytic, interpersonal and communication skills are required
• Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Advance troubleshooting skills
• Proven problem solving abilities
  
  Must have the ability to function in a tight knit team environment
• Must be willing to work Change Control Windows on a very regular basis
• Must be willing to challenge yourself with regard to learning new databases, tools and technologies