Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

AWS Database Administrator

  • Seattle (King)
  • IT development

Job description

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are the public cloud. AWS commands a majority of the world's public cloud traffic, serving over 1 million customers, and this volume is growing exponentially every day. Our team provides the data persistence platform that AWS is built upon.

At Amazon/AWS, we take databases to their limits. Due to our scale, we see issues that no other RDBMS customers see. We are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance and high availability requirements. Do these types of challenges excite you? if so ....

AWS Database Services is currently looking for a talented Oracle database administrator/engineer with 5+ years of experience for its Seattle office. The DBA will perform administration and engineering for multiple production databases. The ideal candidate will be responsible for fast-paced complex distributed database environments supporting primarily OLTP on a UNIX/Linux platform. Successful candidates will have the ability to rapidly troubleshoot complex technical problems under pressure.
- Test, validate and implement performance and resource optimization improvements in consultation with AWS development Teams
- Maintain development and production database environments
- Monitor and maintain database security and database software
- Database & Application( SQL & PL/SQL ) performance tuning
- Backup and recovery (RMAN and traditional)
- Root cause analysis of production-related database issues
- On-call for production databases - daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer and dev support
- Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.

Deep knowledge of Oracle and Postgres internals.
Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
Experience with other Data Persistence platforms: RDBMS (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL), NoSQL, Hadoop, Data and Software Migration off/to RDBMS, AWS DBs (RDS, DynamoDB, EMR, Redshift, Aurora, etc.), Data Information Lifecycle Management, Data Security, Big Data ....

Review, design and develop data models in conjunction with the application development teams
Design, develop, and implement Oracle database instances for the development and production environments

Database Engineering
Review, design and develop data models in conjunction with the application development teams
Design, develop, and implement RDBMS database instances for the development and production environments

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Management, Mathematics, or a related field
- Minimum of 3 years Database Administration experience with administering and supporting multiple Oracle databases for performance critical, highly available systems on UNIX/Linux platform
- Minimum of 5 years data modeling experience with conducting performance tuning, backup/recovery, and scalability/capacity planning, in addition to SQL, PL/SQL, and UNIX shell scripting
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with backup/restore functionality using RMAN.
- Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.
- Excellent SQL and DB performance tuning skills.
- Experience implementing and supporting Oracle FSFO.
- Minimum of 5 years troubleshooting and problem-solving experience.
- This position requires 24/7 operational support on a weekly rotation.

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