Senior Cloud Database Engineer - 6 Month Contract to Hire - Remote
Overview
My client is looking for a Senior Database Engineer - Public Cloud, to work in a fast paced environment, providing both production & development support. This position will work closely with various development groups across the firm, and should demonstrate his/her ability as a technical expert on the team.
Duties:
- Provide production support, solutions and expertise for Cloud Database Platforms Partner with engineering teams, business units to design, develop and deploy AWS Relational, NoSQL and Data Lake architectures
- Ability to troubleshoot difficult issues quickly, deliver RCA and resolve in a 24x7 production environment
- Support performance testing and application benchmarking activities
- Provide recommendations and guidance for improvements of our design
- Collect, monitor and alert on system health metrics
- Ability to work off hours/weekends as required for maintenance
Skills/Qualifications
- 3+ years of production experience supporting Cloud Database Platforms (RDS, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Snowflake)
- 5+ years developing critical platform infrastructure
- 8+ years of database administration development support
- Experience with traditional relational systems; Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Experience with NoSQL and columnar data stores
- Strong scripting abilities in bash, python
- Experience in version control systems, Git and CI/CD
- Excellent communication skills. Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills
- Experience in building large systems, distributed systems
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
- Diligent standards in providing documentation and building repeatable processes
- Kerberos and Database authentication using key vault
- Knowledge of and experience implementing DevOps principles including Infrastructure-as-code
Nice to haves
- At least 1 recent platform certification or specialty in AWS
- Proven experience building AWS Infrastructure
- Experience in public cloud data warehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, EMR)
- Experience in Data Migration Strategies to public cloud
If interested please respond with an updated resume.
