Advanced Database Engineer

ResMed
San Diego, United States of America
29 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

San Diego, United States of America

Tech stack

Adaptable Database Systems
Data analysis
Databases
Data Loss
Database Applications
Database Development
Disaster Recovery
PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL Server
MongoDB
MySQL
Performance Tuning
Role-Based Access Control
Backup and Restore
System Availability
Database Optimization
AWS Lambda
Database Migration

Job description

Global Technology Solutions (GTS), at ResMed is a division dedicated to creating innovative, scalable, and secure platforms and services for patients, providers, and people across ResMed. The primary goal of GTS is to accelerate well-being and growth by transforming the core, enabling patient, people, and partner outcomes, and building future-ready operations.

The strategy of GTS focuses on aligning goals and promoting collaboration across all organizational areas. This includes fostering shared ownership, developing flexible platforms that can easily scale to meet global demands, and implementing global standards for key processes to ensure efficiency and consistency.

The primary role of Database Engineer is to design, implement, manage and maintain Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Postgres and MySQL databases. Key deliverables include but not limited to providing support to application DBA tasks such as database cloning, patching, migration, performance tuning, cost optimization and database migration., 1. Maintaining and enhancing the performance of existing database programs.

  1. Assisting database development and Product Development teams in designing new database programs that meet the organization's needs.
  2. Identifying bottlenecks and resolving them by tuning queries, implementing indexing strategies, and adjusting resource allocation.
  3. Regularly updating and patching database software, managing upgrades, and ensuring high availability.
  4. Implementing access controls (like RBAC), encryption, and ensuring the database meets regulatory standards like HIPAA or GDPR.
  5. Establishing robust protocols for data backups and disaster recovery to prevent data loss.
  6. Design database solutions like Database as a service to deploy database platforms.
  7. Automate the database tasks like database file growths, lambdas to turn off non-prod clusters etc.
  8. On-call support for the databases.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
  • Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
  • Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

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