Database Engineer

This role will be focused heavily on Oracle deployed on AWS. Open to Westlake, Texas location as well.

About the Role

As a Database Engineer you will work within the Data Platform space, on our Oracle Engineering team. You will work with a highly collaborative, multi-functional technical team that is committed to improving the value of our technology solutions. You will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining the enterprise-level database systems that store, organize, and manage an organization's critical data. This role is a hybrid of software engineering and database expertise, focused on building foundational database solutions and best practices for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and enhance database solutions for the AWS and Azure cloud and on-prem platforms.
• Oracle database administration, platform engineering and automation to create a highly available and scalable environment.
• Work with DevOps team to build/configure/debug pipelines and automation.
• Build and deploy data solutions in AWS and Azure.
• Design and implement highly resilient Oracle database platforms, using distributed database.
• Configure alerts and monitors using tools like Data Dog, OEM and OTEL to create a highly available platform.
• Participate in US on-call schedule for production support and maintenance of high availability database systems.
• Evaluate and propose best-of-breed tools and engineering best-practices.
• Participate in code review and unit testing and provide support on issues in development or production.

Qualifications

• 12+ experience in Oracle Database Administration / Performance Engineering / Replication Engineering across multiple platforms -- Linux and Engineered systems.

Required Skills

• Experience working in a large database hybrid environment that includes both on-prem and public cloud resources.
• Experience working on various Cloud Options (AWS/Azure - fully managed/IAAS) including practical expertise in migrating databases from on-premises to public cloud.
• Strong experience in production support and maintenance of high availability database systems.
• Expertise and experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools such as GitHub, Artifactory and Jenkins.
• Ability to automate various administrative tasks using Python, Groovy, Jenkins, Java, and/or shell scripting skills.
• Expertise in Golden Gate replication on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) & Exadata.

Preferred Skills

• A good understanding of Oracle RAC related performance challenges.
• Think innovatively and have the ability to automate various administrative tasks.