Job Description for

Senior Database Administrator position

(KTP)

Position Summary
As a Senior DBA, you will combine your passion for DBMS and expertise in AWS to deliver
continuous value to students and customers. In this role, you will help define, design, deploy
and support company databases in different SQL and NOSQL technologies. You will work
collaboratively with engineering teams to provide standalone and clustering solutions based on
Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL on AWS RDS databases and EC2 servers.

Key Job Responsibilities

● Consul on code and processes created or requested by application owners or other IT
groups to improve performances, reliability, automation and security.
● Assume ownership of databases related problems; pursue short and long term problem
resolution, drive root cause analysis (RCA) and risk management processes.
● Reviewing and tuning databases for optimal system performance including modifying
parameters to improve throughput and effectively utilize system resources.
● Develop and drive incident management processes, playbooks and stakeholder
communication mechanisms.
● Will be scheduled for after-hours support and will be required to perform production
releases or maintenance operations during non-peak hours.
● Work closely with all operational groups to insure SOX compliance for corporate adopted
systems.
● Proactive in adopting new features, tools, technologies and processes to improve
Security, automation and monitoring.

Minimum Qualifications
● 7+ years experience in upgrading and supporting database engines such as
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL in a large high-availability
production environment residing on Amazon RDS.
● Experience with high availability Postgres 11, 12, 13 and 14 databases.
● Experience supporting AlwaysOn Availability Groups, ETL, SSRS and SSIS.
● Strong knowledge of SQL query writing and optimization.
● Familiar with Oracle internals and procedural language (PL/SQL).
● Strong working knowledge of optimization, troubleshooting and supporting NoSQL
databases on Linux.
 ● Must be results-driven, able to multitask and have the ability to execute efficiently on a
variety of projects concurrently in an agile environment.
● As senior in an operational role, the position requires availability for non-business hours
deployments and on-call coverage.
● Familiarity with working on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services.

Preferred Qualifications
● Knowledge for MSFT Azure database technologies
● Experience and comfort using both Linux and Windows.
● Experience with Bash, Powershell, Python or comparable scripting languages.
● Familiar with Agile methodologies, and use of tools like Google workspace, Jira, GitHub,
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