Database Administrator

Role & responsibilities

• Administer and maintain scalable AWS cloud environments and applications for data organization.
• Install and maintain software, services, and applications by identifying system requirements.
• Extensive database experience with AWS Redshift, AWS RDS and MySQL
• Hands-on AWS Services and DB and Server troubleshooting experience.
• Maintains environment by identifying system requirements, installing upgrades and monitoring system performance.
• Knowledge of day-to-day database operations, deployments, and development
• Experienced in Snowflake
• Knowledge of SQL and Performance tuning
• Knowledge of Linux Shell Scripting or Python
• Migrate system from one AWS cloud to another AWS account
• Hands-on DB and Server troubleshooting experience
• Maintains system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis and performance tuning.
• Troubleshooting system hardware, software and operating and system management systems.
• Incident and change management
• Release management and Code deployment
• After hour on-call support
• Testing disaster recovery policies and procedures; completing back-ups; and maintaining documentation.
• Upgrades system and services and developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements and new software.
• Communicate with stakeholders  

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering
• 10 years of experience in System, platform, and AWS cloud administration
• 7 years of Database administration using latest AWS technologies – AWS Redshift, RDS, S3, EC2, NLB, VPC etc.
• 2 years of Snowflake administration
• Experience with Agile software development using JIRA
• Experience in multiple OS platforms with strong emphasis on Linux and Windows systems
• Experience with OS-level scripting environment such as KSH shell., PowerShell
• Experience with version management tools and CICD pipeline
• In-depth knowledge of the TCP / IP protocol suite, security architecture, securing and hardening Operating Systems, Networks, Databases and Applications.
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) , query performance tuning.
• Experience supporting and optimizing data pipelines and data sets.
• Knowledge of the Incident Response life cycle
• AWS solution architect certifications preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.