Cloud Database Engineer

Title : Cloud Database Engineer W2 Only

Duration : contract to hire role

Location: Onsite in Phoenix

MUST HAVES (TOP 3):
1. AWS: Aurora Postgres
2. DynamoDB
3. RDS SQL Server and any others; GCP: CloudSQL Spanner BigTable Firestore

CLIENT JOB DESCRIPTION (Insert Here):
Help chart the course for database technology at American Express! We need top technical talent to supplement our Database Engineering team. This team selects the operational database technologies American Express will use and figures out how best to set them up. We define design implement test and communicate the architectures configurations best practices and standards for optimal use of database technologies across the company both onprem and public cloud. We evaluate new database versions product enhancements features components and extensions for performance throughput scalability availability monitoring and security; and we partner with our hosting database administration and operational support teams to operationalize and harden database technology for our toptier financial applications.

This specific posting is for a software/infrastructure engineer with experience in integrating deploying and running relational and/or NoSQL databases in AWS and/or GCP. The candidate will put these skills to use by evaluating and preparing new and upgraded cloud database offerings offerings for use across Amex and by documenting presenting and explaining the appropriate techniques patterns and best practices for their use to our application development database administration and operational support teams.

The candidate will bring solid knowledge of DBMS concepts such as ACID CAP and consistency. The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprisescale cloud database deployments including intra and interdatacenter high availability configurations fault tolerance and failover replication cluster management automated provisioning upgrade techniques backup & restoration techniques security mechanisms health monitoring and alerting techniques and troubleshooting.

Top skills & qualifications:

• DB certifications in cloud Platforms AWS and/or GCP
• Proven experience as a database engineer with hands on experience on relational databases (Cloud SQL AlloyDB Spanner Aurora Postgres Oracle) and/or NoSQL databases (Cassandra MongoDB DynamoDB Firestore Bigtable)
• Experience in designing and implementing database GDHA HA DR and fault tolerant DB architectures
• DB provisioning automation monitoring and maintenance using scripting languages (Ansible Python) and infrastructureascode tools (Terraform/AWS Cloud Formation)
• Experience in database security including encryption access controls Active Directory RBAC and compliance standards
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)

Daytoday activities:

• Jira is used for project management
• DB Engineering team meets on a daily basis to review progress on assigned tasks (see job description for roles and responsibilities)
• Working independently and with team members with new DB technology and integrated services in AWS and GCP
• Defining testing and documenting standards and best practices developing runbooks providing training to developers and DB support teams for new cloud DB technologies features and integrated services

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