Principal Database Engineer
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Manages and maintains all production and non-production databases. Responsible for standards and design of physical data storage, maintenance, access, and security administration. Performs backup and recovery on Database Systems, configures database parameters to meet or exceed business requirements. Optimizes database access and allocates/re-allocates database resources for optimum configuration, database performance, and cost. Supports multiple services and multiple databases of medium to high complexity (complexity defined by database size, technology used, systems feeds, and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility of data. Works on multiple projects as a project leader or sometimes as a project advisor. May coach more junior technical staff.
Duties
- Responsible for administration and management of the Snowflake database environment.
- Support of Teradata environment.
- Support of Redshift Applications/AWS.
Responsibilities
- Monitors the database system hardware/software for performance degradation, connectivity issues, system events, and alerts.
- Updates and manages tickets through resolution with vendors and internal support groups.
- Tests, analyzes, performs corrective actions, and restores availability and services in a timely and accurate manner to eliminate/reduce application impact.
- Provides timely notifications to management/outage team and escalates tickets to appropriate internal and external management as needed.
- Plans and performs scheduled changes (patching, maintenance, deployment, decommission, configuration, performance tuning) for all hardware and software used to support the database infrastructure.
- Provides consultative services to infrastructure and application teams regarding project work, POCs, and/or troubleshooting exercises.
- Researches and implements new technologies to enhance/grow existing database infrastructure.
- Participates in pager rotation to provide 24×7 support for all database system environments (Prod, Test, Development)
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Database Administration, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in IT, Database Administration, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- 10+ years of experience in IT, Database Administration, or related field
- Relevant Technology Certifications
- 4-6 or more years of experience building, managing and administering data platforms like Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle, Redshift, other DW data platforms.
- 1-3 years of experience in AWS Architect role
- 2 years’ experience with Linux Server platform
- 1-3 years of supporting a large data platform and data pipelining.
- Work closely with Data engineers to tune queries, implement physical models, design and implement secure data sharing.
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Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.
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