Query Tuning Specialist - Database Performance - Postgres

ServiceNow

Query Tuning Specialist - Database Performance - Postgres

Austin, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    What you get to do in this role:

    • Strong experience with performance and stress testing tools and approaches for driving realistic customer simulations
    • 5+ years of database management and performance tuning
    • 5+ years of experience supporting or testing large scale web-based distributed applications on containers such as Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, Web Logic, and Web Sphere in a Unix environment
    • 3+ years of experience developing on a SaaS, PaaS, or Cloud Infrastructure product/solution
    • Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
    • Unix skills: including development, navigation, file manipulation, permissions, searching/finding files and text contents, and administrative actions
    • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies
    • developing and deploying mission critical software
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline, or similar work experience.
    • Eagerness to learn everything about the ServiceNow Platform
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    To be successful in this role you have:

    • Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
    • Experience with service now platform, scripting, tuning, troubleshooting is highly preferred.
    • Scripting: basic shell scripting, Python, Javascript
    • Solid understanding and experience with databases mainly Mysql (and Oracle)
    • Solid understanding of schemas, table spaces, indexing, and database performance optimization
    • Familiarity or knowledge of CentOS/RedHat operating system (admin/root level)
    • Demonstrated experience leading individual projects, including scheduling and reporting
    • Formal experience on a DevOps or Performance or support team is desired

    JV20

    Additional Information

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