Database Admin

Communication Skills:

The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management capable of successful formal and informal communication speaks and writes clearly and understandably for the audience.

Analytical Skills:

Strong analytical skills required with strong attention to detail and accuracy. Ability to source disseminate and properly apply secondary research

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10 years as an Oracle DBA with expertise in design implementation backup recovery monitoring and performance tuning.
• 5 Expertise with multiple AWS DB Services Lambda creations for automating multiple DB jobs.
• 5 Database automation in AWS with RDS Lambda using Python. Preferable: Oracle Postgres AuroraDB.
• Expertise in highavailability database features replication disaster recovery and live production schema changes.
• Proficiency with cloudspecific technologies (S3 Route 53 CloudFormation AWS CDK AWS Cloudwatch AWS RDS AWS Redshift DynamoDB Redis) version control tools (Git) and database lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of database security backup retention policies and scaling databases.
• Experience with managing the full life cycle of database schema design and implementation which includes script management from development through production releases.
• Experience implementing database schema changes in a live production environment requiring minimal downtime and zero performance impact.
• Work with customer deployment squads and product management to identify and document use case scenarios.
• Having lead on all data solution aspects including setting data standards and providing your deep technical expertise to development teams for best practices systems and architectures.

Responsibilities:

• The AWS DBA is responsible for data analysis and database management Database automation in AWS with RDS Lambda using Python.
• Database Administrators typically are involved in maintenance enhancement designing of data dictionaries physical and logical database models and performance tuning.
• Database Administrators are also responsible for understanding configuring and managing database administration tools.
• Provides database support for business applications and schedules back up jobs for user databases.
• Provides access control (password resets /account creation/deletion) and checks IP compliance (violation report review compliance updates and compliance set ups).
• Performs data purging and data replication activities with both ondemand and automated cron jobs.
• Research on connectivity issues and recurring errors in Application database.
• Responds to database alerts and takes appropriate actions.
• Performs database creations.
• Performs performance tuning and troubleshooting for database.
• Performs application database maintenance and provides technical assistance to users.
• Manages database account access and database object changes.
• Ensures that monitoring and alerts are properly in place to meet monitoring requirements.
• Performs application database and OS scripting.
• Reviews Information Protection compliance reports and notifications for individual databases and internal processes (including compliance updates and compliance set ups).
• Performs data purging and data replication activities
• Performs database recovery from logs hot & cold backups Export/Imports and Disaster Recovery.
• Performs database creation decommissioning and database updates/migrations to a higher/lower version or cross platform migrations. Also involved in database schema and object refresh activities.
• Monitors and reports existing database Instance Database Server activities for CPU Memory and Cache logs performance and recommends effective resource utilization/emergency recovery procedures.
• Implements database security and auditing features and periodic reviews. Conducts root cause analysis for repeated incidents.
• Performs heterogeneous database interface deployment and support for various data interfaces with applications Middleware interface and functionality deployment with database architecture.
• Plans and develops processes for database updates and migrations to a higher/lower version or cross platform migrations.
• Also involved in database schema and object refresh activities.
• Develops capacity planning processes that include monitoring of existing database Instance Database Server activities for CPU Memory Cache Logs performance and recommends effective utilization of resources and emergency recovery procedures.
• Conducts team training and responsible for resource management.
• Research new technologies to address operations reliability and compliance.
• Implements and performs configuration management of database cluster and replications.