Senior Database Engineer

Job Description

Job Description:

Mandatory Skills: Cloud, AWS, Python, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Oracle DB and Postgres DB

Required Key Skills:

•             Knowledge of Database concepts

o             Architecture, storage option, optimizing storage

o             Managed services, advantages , disadvantages

•             Knowledge of database operations

o             Backup, Methods, and Tools

o             Monitoring

•             Knowledge of data recovery

o             DR Strategies

o             DR Tools

o             Pros and Cons of different approaches

•             Knowledge of Data Protection

•             Knowledge of Data Virtualization technologies

o             Conceptual

o             Architecture

•             Python REST API Development (core python skills needed)

•             AWS Experience – AWS functions – Cloud formation,  Lambdas,  S3, Artifactory, cloudwatch,  cloud trail,  KMS keys, IAM roles, Security Groups, etc.

• builds and maintains Pipelines that deploy databases.
• Python,  Unix ,Scripting.

Github – Understanding API calls with Swagger

Day to Day responsibility:

* While you need to know oracle and Postgres, this team mainly builds and maintains Pipelines that deploy databases.  Almost all the build scripts have already been built,

* We are just updating them, fixing issues, and adding new functionality.

* The person needs to have a good background in Python,  Unix ,Scripting.

* We use a lot of AWS functions – Cloud formation,  Lambdas, S3, Artifactory, Cloud Watch, cloud trail,  KMS keys, IAM roles, Security Groups, etc.

* GitHub – a lot of branching and merging.  Understanding API calls with Swagger, Java coding could be a requirement as well, or at least knowledge of how to Make changes, etc.