Database Engineer III , AWS Database Migration Services

DESCRIPTION

Position Responsibilities:

Innovate and engineer solutions in the area of database technology. Apply engineering experience to automate databases at scale. Engage in ongoing database engineering process, partnering with development groups, and providing deep subject matter expertise input as stakeholders to design reviews. Advocate for bringing forward and resolving customer issues. Act as "Voice of the Customer" helping software engineers understand how customers use databases. Work with developers to refine and design tools migration and replication tools used by customers. Testing tools to improve quality, performance, and scalability. Help customers leverage tools for moving data into and around the AWS ecosystem. Work with customers to solve complex migration and replication problems. Gather feedback to drive improvements in the quality and functionality of tools. Work with AWS Services: DMS, SCT, RDS, Aurora, Redshift, S3, Kinesis, EC2, MSK.

Key job responsibilities

• Working with developers to refine and design tools migration and replication tools used by our customers.
• Testing our tools to improve quality, performance, and scalability.
• Helping customers leverage our tools for moving data into and around the AWS ecosystem.
• Working with customer to solve complex migration and replication problems.
• Gathering feedback to drive improvements in the quality and functionality of our tools.
• Working with AWS Services: DMS, SCT, RDS, Aurora, Redshift, S3, Kinesis, EC2, MSK.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered, or as an Operations Research Analyst, Database Developer, or a related occupation.
• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field and six years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience.
• Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s):
• (1) Designing and maintaining relational databases including Oracle, MySQL, Postgres or SQL Server;
• (2) Systems engineering including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting;
• (3) Building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems;
• (4) Knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, or recovery paths);
• (5) Experience with at least one scripting language: shell, Python, or Perl;
• (6) Coding in procedural language for at least one database: PL/SQL, PL-SQL, or T-SQL.
• Domestic travel required up to 25%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of AWS database migration software and technologies (DMS, SCT)
• Experience with software development methodologies and programming languages such as Java or C#
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
• Deep knowledge of either Postgres, MongoDB or DB2.
• Understanding of the Enterprise services space, particularly database and analytics
• Experience influencing product development and working development teams
• Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion.
• Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to details, proactive self-starter
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads
• Ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions
• Experience in consulting and resolving database issues to minimize business impact.
• Experience migrating databases from on-prem to cloud or running in a hybrid cloud environment

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