Job Description: Business Unit/Group: WB Analytics Data Management (WB Games)
Requisition Number: 132041
Intended Start Date: 2/28/2025
Contract Duration: 18months
Possibility For Extension / Conversion Yes.
Max Hourly Pay Rate: BR/hr
OT Required / Expected Yes expected although rare.
What We Do/Project
Warner Bros. Analytics team (WBA) provides data analytics services that support game teams and analysts across the WB Games organization.
As players perform actions ingame our platform collects telemetry in realtime. The data collected provides insights for guiding game development marketing and monetization.
Some of our featured games include Game of Thrones: Conquest Injustice 2 Mortal Kombat Batman: Arkham Knight Hogwarts Legacy.
The database administrator manages the database fleets; maintains secure optimized and highly available databases data warehouses and lake houses. This includes working with multiple project teams to determine changes needed to both the database and surrounding infrastructure and then implementing those changes. Our DBA s support ongoing project efforts and daytoday support activities for the department. The team is also looking for new technical innovations to improve developers experience systems performance and overall operations; costs
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
Daytoday operational management of Redshift Clusters and RDS DBs
Perform Redshift user/security tasks as needed (user/group management password management IAM Roles/Policies)
Analyze production workloads and develop strategies to run optimized Redshift clusters with scale and efficiency.
Provide architecture guidance and support to technical leads. Help develop code/SQLs for data assets identify performance tuning opportunities and work with developers to improve production systems.
Develop monitoring/recovery automation to identify and resolve issues with high SLA
Research new technologies and develop proofs of concept. Propose tech improvements and new capabilities.
Must Have Skills / Requirements
1) Redshift or RDS Experience
a. Years of experience ( 3 )
2) AWS Infrastructure Experience
a. Years of experience ( 2 )
3) Python/Jenkins Experience
a. Years of experience ( 2 )
Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
1) Experience with DynamoDB OpenSearch is a nice to have
2) Degree or certs aligning with role.
Soft Skills
1) Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
2) Ability to lead projects prioritize and multitask
3) Deadline and detailoriented
4) Part of Oncall rotation
Education / Certifications
1) None
Interview Process / Next Steps
1) 1st with Hiring manager (will be manager after onboarding) and colleagues (technical)
2) 2nd Technical interview with collague
3) 3rd interview with Engagement Manager (not the same as HM) technical and behavioral.
Additional Notes
Sourcing remotely.
Additional Sills: