Database Administrator

JOIN OUR WINNING TEAM AS A DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR Do you enjoy working with an innovative development team and supporting database systems? If so CARFAX has a great opportunity for you! As a Database Administrator you will work on a team to provide high quality database services that satisfy our customers’ needs. At the same time, we will use your expertise to develop innovative architectures that will help propel CARFAX’s environment into the future. You will administer and manage CARFAX’s web facing, and internal business intelligence databases. If you like the idea of working in a TEAM environment where you are well supported and will help the team offer “BEST IN MARKET” products to customers, consider making your next move to CARFAX! THE TECH CARFAX CULTURE Having a creative and innovative environment where our developers can collaborate, learn and grow is a CARFAX passion. We have an entire floor dedicated to our techies, designed specifically to enable teams to dream big and produce the best. Along with creating and maintaining awesome software you’ll also be able to participate in our quarterly Hack-a-thon’s or take a break by kicking back and playing the latest game on x-box when you need to re-boot the mind. Oh, and do you happen to have a dog? CARFAX is dog-friendly and no day goes by where you don’t have the chance to visit with one of the visiting pups. We even provide the dog beds, bowls and of course, toys! AS A DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR YOU WILL:

• Own, track, and resolve database related incidents
• Provide 24/7 on-call rotation support to our customers.
• Design and architect new database technologies for CARFAX’s products
• Monitor application related jobs and data replication activities
• Manage replication between database systems
• Setup and maintain documentation and standards
• Plan growth and changes (capacity planning)
• Perform general technical trouble shooting and give consultation to development teams

• 3+ years experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra, etc.
• 2+ years experience with relational databases such as Oracle, Postgres, or MySQL
• 2+ years managing highly available, scalable production systems in a fast-paced production environment
• Experience with Cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Understanding of data architecture, replication, and administration
• A good knowledge of physical database design
• A good knowledge of security management
• A good knowledge data integrity
• A sound knowledge of both database and system performance tuning
• Experience with automation tools such as Chef/Puppet
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

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