Database Engineer

Overview

On Site
$1 - $2
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
100% Travel

Skills

HADR
Queue Replication
AIX
UNIX
AWS
LINUX
PostgreSQL
Oracle
DB2
MySQL
GCP
Azure
Jenkins
Git
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Docker
Python
Shell
SQL
Java
ELK
Prometheus
Grafana
Dynatrace
Splunk
AppDynamics
New Relic
ServiceNow
Jira
BigPanda
PagerDuty
OS
Memory
Misc Issues

Job Details

Core Task Requirements

The ideal candidate knows how to navigate complex, large systems of many hundreds of servers and many thousands of services. Understand how to effectively use a CMDB as 70-80% of the work is in pre-production. Proactive monitoring of capacity of databases, services, market data, quotas. Ideal candidate knows about query optimization, knows how to read a query plan and suggest improvements, and in general knows how to optimize code, database and configuration to get the most efficient and effective use of a database.

Skill Set Needed

Architectural Experience: High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Queue Replication (QREP), Elasticity, Distributed DB, CMDB (configuration management database)

OS Platform: AIX/UNIX and AWS/LINUX

Database Platforms: PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MySQL

Cloud & DevOps: AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure, Jenkins, Git, CI/CD pipelines

Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker

Scripting & Programming: Python, Shell, SQL, Java

Monitoring & Alerting: Splunk/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace/AppDynamics/New Relic

Other Tools: ServiceNow, Jira, BigPanda, PagerDuty

Troubleshooting Skills: OS/Memory/Misc Issues

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