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Senior Database Engineer

New Life Staffing, LLC

Senior Database Engineer

Seattle, WA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    New Life Staffing is looking for a Senior Database Engineer in the Seattle, WA are.

    Key responsibilities include DB technology evaluation, guidance and consultation, design support, task automation and scripting, best practice and standards development, capacity planning, optimization and tuning, system upgrades and migrations, performance management, monitoring, security, backup and recovery, issue troubleshooting, and documentation. Additional tasks as assigned.

     

    Primary responsibilities include:

     

    • Responsible for level 2 systems management and exercises project-level control over initiatives.
    • Excellent technical expertise in relevant state of the art data technologies, data security, data systems, and its design.
    • Develops, enhances and adheres to engineering and administration standards.
    • Upholds and maintains strong documentation.
    • The ideal candidate will have strong experience with at least one of the Pubic Cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud Services, and Azure
    • 5-7 years of experience with products such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Spark, etc.
    • Relational Database Administration experience in the past is a plus.

     

     

     

    Basic Qualifications

     

    • Degree in computer science/information systems, engineering or related field preferred; or a corresponding number of years’ experience in technical operations or software engineering
    • 4-6 years of experience with managing large clusters for technologies such as- , MongoDB, Spark
    • 2-3 years of experience writing automation under Cloudformation, Terraform, chef, and running data platform in AWS/Azure.
    • 6-8 years’ experience with Linux Server platform designing secure, reliable, highly available, performant data services.
    • 2-4 years of supporting a large data platform and data pipelining.
    • 4-6 years’ experience with relevant scripting languages or programming frameworks desired (Python, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python, bash)
    • Expertise in database administration including configuration, implementation, data modeling, maintenance, redundancy/HA/DR, security, troubleshooting/performance tuning, upgrades, database, data and server migrations, SQL
    • 3 or more years of IT operational experience supporting robust e-commerce, gaming or online businesses in a 24X7 production environment(on-call)
    • Thorough understanding in Security implementations(IAM, SSL, encryption, firewall, wall garden) on Database, storage, network, and Cloud environments. Participated in auditing exercise
    • Expertise in configuring, implementing, and supporting high availability redundancy strategies on systems including replication, clustering, log shipping, mirroring
    • Expertise in database design and architectural principles and methodologies
    • Expertise with Disaster Recovery planning and implementation
    • Excellent knowledge of Storage subsystems- storage Engines, AWS Block storage, S3, EFS - types, and relevant use cases.
    • Ability to partner with relevant software vendors to determine near-term, long-term business impacts of product updates on our technology portfolio
    • Knowledge of understanding of TCP/IP fundamentals (DNS, SSH), general networking technologies, AWS networking(VPC, security group), network architecture, and connectivity troubleshooting

     

    Preferred Qualifications

    Masters of Science degree in computer science or equiv

     

    Required Education

    BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

     

     

    ----- NOTES for recruiter:

    We really looking for someone who is a strong Technical Experience in doing AWS migration with a strong focus on Data management, migration.

    We need someone with strong MongoDB skills for our immediate needs but will need him/her to be able to handle other data sources as well ie.e dynamo etc.

    Understands MongoDB and AWS is the key.