Senior Database Platform Engineer

Dimensional Fund Advisors
Austin, United States of America
7 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

Austin, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
JIRA
Azure
Google BigQuery
C Sharp (Programming Language)
C++
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Software Quality
Computer Programming
Databases
Computer Engineering
Continuous Integration
Github
Python
PostgreSQL
Liquibase
Microsoft SQL Server
MongoDB
NoSQL
Octopus Deploy
Object-Oriented Software Development
Powershell
Systems Development Life Cycle
Cloud Services
Ansible
SQL Databases
Database Engines
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform System
Snowflake
GIT
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Information Technology
Kafka
Puppet
REST
Terraform
Jenkins
Redshift

Job description

The Senior Database Platform Engineer will work as part of a team to create and refine innovative solutions to empower our business. This multi-discipline role will enable the business and technology teams to leverage various data platform technologies at a high level. The Engineer will enable users to provision, analyze and consume data via performant, secure and scalable database platforms., * Architects and automates database platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, issue remediation, and security.

  • Applies expert understanding and troubleshooting of complex database systems.
  • Establishes, implements, and maintains best practice standards around code quality, deployment, security, architecture, and automation.
  • Collaborates with business and technology teams to accomplish engineering project goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience engineering for database engines (ex: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake)
  • 10+ years of experience programming interpreted scripting languages (Python and/ or Powershell)
  • 7+ years of experience working with cloud platforms in various cloud service providers (ex: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, RDS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
  • 8+ years of experience using SQL or NoSQL based languages
  • 8+ years of experience using and developing with configuration management products and applying Infrastructure as Code principles (ex; Terraform, Ansible, Powershell DSC, Puppet, Chef, Cloud Formation, etc.)
  • 5+ years of experience working with containerized platforms
  • Expert knowledge of relevant database platform engine internals, infrastructure and concepts
  • Expert knowledge of CI/CD and SDLC workflow (Ex: JIRA, Git, Github, Github Actions, Liquibase, Jenkins, Octopus, DbUp, etc.)
  • Experience working with Kafka
  • Experience working and developing with/on REST APIs and other non-DB direct interfaces
  • Applies a high bar for database platform architecture and security to solutions
  • Embodies and applies an engineering mindset to all aspects of their role
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex concepts to various audiences helping them to understand the benefits of technologies and recommended course of action

PREFERRED

  • Experience working with or interest in object-oriented programming languages (ex: C#, Java, C++, etc.)

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