Senior Systems Engineer Database Administration

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
• 7 years experience in technology infrastructure application delivery (operations) that includes:
• 5 years of experience with database platforms along with their high availability design implementations (listed in priority order):
• RDBMS: Oracle SQL Server DB2 LUW MySQL Postgres
• NoSQL: DocumentDB Couchbase Cassandra Cockroach
• Cloud Native DBaaS (e.g. AWS RDS)
• ElasticCache (Redis)
• 3 years of experience in Agile/DevOps methodologies
• 3 years with Kubernetes (EKS AKS ACK or OpenShift)
• 3 years of experience with cloud technology and its concepts (AWS Azure and/or Alibaba) including networking security and IAM
• 3 years Infrastructure and Configuration ManagementasCode Services
• Terraform Enterprise Vault Enterprise
• Ansible or Ansible Tower
• 3 years of experience with infrastructure automation through scripting with Python Ruby PowerShell and/or UNIX scripting languages.
• Networking fundamentals
• Ability to independently research and recommend tools software applications and systems for attaining bestinclass IT technology across the enterprise.
• Ability to drive an idea or concept to an actual solution with significant autonomy.
• Ability to design highly resilient systems that support 99.9% uptime.
• Ability to create constructive relationships influence and communicate (to project team IT management and nontechnical staff).

• Graduate Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Experience with observability tooling: Dynatrace APM & Grail Splunk CloudWatch VPC Flow Logs
• Experience with security tool integration and methods (e.g. SSO MFA WAM): Vault Thycotic Ping Access PAM/SSSD Waratek
• Ransomware protection tools/methods
• DevOps Tooling: Helm Harness Backstage Jenkins Aqua
• Confluent Cloud (Kafka)
• Experience with some of these middleware products: DataPower MQSeries MQ JBoss Tomcat Apache Web IBM Integration Bus (AppConnect)
• One or more cloud certifications.
• ITIL V4 foundation certification.
• Excellent technical knowledge of current and emerging infrastructure systems and standards.
• Project planning and management experience.
• Excellent understanding of change management and testing requirements techniques and tools.
• High availability and disaster recovery strategies and solutions.

• Serve as one of the departments database platform technology SMEs.
• Modernizing legacy IT systems
• Produce Infrastructure as Code
• Provide solutions to lift and shift legacy solutions into the cloud
• Provide solutions to transform legacy solutions into cloud native solutions.
• Provides technical expertise oversight standardization and validation of the effectiveness of hardware and software infrastructure
• Research design and engineer highperforming Infrastructure (as code) components that are standardsbased highly available and secured delivering the required business functionality.
• Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions
• Educates internal and external users of the technologies to continually improve the knowledge and skillbase of the organization on how best to operate and support the infrastructure services.
• Provides documents with a focus on how services will be leveraged in the solution architecture.
• Provides and presents status analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders Executive Management and Senior Leadership
• Trains and/or mentors other team members and peers as appropriate
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery operations and continual service improvement processes
• Develop implementation plans test plans and timelines for projects and tasks
• Participates in the evaluation and selection of technology products.
• Institutes best practices and ensures proper alignment to projects and major initiatives.
• Leads analysis of the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement.
• Leads analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine the potential impact on existing and planned architectures.

• Functions as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.
• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize organize and accomplish work.
• Champions leaders vision for product and service delivery.
• Makes and executes the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.
• Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.
• Determines priorities schedules plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.
• Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Reviews vendor proposals and selects appropriate vendor for services/technologies/hardware.
• Thinks creatively and practically to develop execute and implement new project plans.
• Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports presentations etc.
• Plans develops implements and evaluates the quality of operations.

• Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.
• Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.
• Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.
• Supports achievement of performance goals budget goals team goals etc.

• Provides technical expertise and technical leadership within own and other teams.
• Provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness of processes and programs.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of jobrelevant issues products systems and processes.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of functionspecific procedures.
• Applies knowledge/judgment to achieve business goals.
• Foresees identifies and resolves problems.
• Keeps uptodate technically and applies new knowledge to job.
• Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.

cloud native dbaas (e.g., aws rds),observability tooling: dynatrace apm, splunk, cloudwatch, vpc flow logs,enterprise,agile methodologies,kubernetes (eks, aks, ack, or openshift),projects,management,rdbms: oracle,devops tooling: helm, harness, jenkins, aqua,elasticcache (redis),mysql,infrastructure,cloud,infrastructure automation (python, ruby, powershell, unix scripting),other,security tool integration (sso, mfa, vault, thycotic),itil v4 foundation certification,cassandra,sql,technology,high availability and disaster recovery strategies,nosql: documentdb,vault enterprise,couchbase,cloud certifications,scrum,devops methodologies,database administration,design,project planning and management,infrastructure and configuration management-as-code,sql server,cloud technology (aws, azure, alibaba),ansible,cockroach,database,networking fundamentals,terraform enterprise,middleware products: datapower, mqseries, jboss, tomcat,db2 luw,postgres