Database Engineer


Job Details

Job Description:

The position's essential duties include the following:

Administers, maintains, develops and implements policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of company databases.

Implements data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes; resolves database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data issues;

Formulates and implements backup procedures for all company databases;

Perform database related development as dictated by departmental or project demands;

Experience with cloud database technologies (ie. AWS RDS, Oracle, MS SQL, Azure)

Familiarity with AWS Cloud products (EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, Aurora, Dynamo DB, EMR, DMS data migration, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, etc.);

Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes;

Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Oracle;

Solid technical experience as a Database Administrator, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills;

DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability and

disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must;

Hands-on experience with operating high-uptime Databases in both AWS and on-premises environments;

Solid problem solving and analytical skills; able to quickly digest any issue/problem encountered and recommend an appropriate solution;

Must be able to demonstrate experience with performance management/measurement methods, tools, and techniques;

Ability to organize and plan work independently.

4 6 years of increasing responsibility administering, optimizing, and maintaining

PostgreSQL and Oracle databases.

Demonstrated skill of formulating best practice recommendations for database operations, including backup strategy, data security and cloud platform. AWS Cloud Database Technologies

DynamoDB,

AWS CLI,

EC2, EBS, S3,

Lambda,

Aurora,

EMR,

DMS data migration,

Athena,

Glue, Kinesis,

SQS/SNS, etc.

Automation tools

Puppet,

Ansible,

AWS Cloud formation,

Terraform,

Kubernetes

Database Querying Languages,

PostgreSQL,

Oracle

Log Analysis

Database cloud observability/monitoring tools splunk, solawinds





 Zolon Tech

 04/18/2024

 Washington,DC