Database Administrator Details

Database Administrator

Amazon.com Services LLC - Austin, TX

Employment Type : Full-Time

• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience as a DBA, Database Engineer, or similar role is required.
• Broad and deep knowledge of atleast 2 relational databases including Oracle, PostgreSQL & MySQL.
• Experience with non-relational database technologies as well.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services such as RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, IAM, EC2, S3, CLI, SDK or equivalent cloud services.
• Proficiency coding in UNIX shell and SQL, and at least one procedural language such as Python, Ruby, Java, Perl, C++.
• Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to details, proactive self-starter.

Job summary Have you ever wondered how Amazon shipped your order so fast? Wondered where it came from or how much it cost us? To help describe some of our challenges, we created a short video about Supply Chain Optimization at Amazon - http://bit.ly/amazon-scot SCOT Team is currently looking for a Database Engineer for its Seattle office to design, develop and manage the persistence solutions that serve and support its needs. Database Engineer will be part of the worldwide operations and responsible for designing, managing and maintaining highly complex, confidential, mission critical and high availability databases in a dynamic and fast paced environment. This job involves design reviews for new/existing development of SCOT applications, identify and architect right RDBMS database solutions like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Big Data or No SQL based cloud computing and storage technologies. If you are excited about the opportunity to learn and work on large scale distributed systems, enjoy trouble shooting and solving complex problems, consider the opportunity. Come challenge yourself in our team-oriented atmosphere, and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of the Amazon e-commerce services platform.

• 5+ years of experience managing and supporting large and complex mission-critical production databases.
• Working knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle, from initial requirements through operational support.
• Experience working using Agile development a plus.
• Experience in 24x7 on-call support for high-severity problem resolution.
• Experience working directly with internal and/or external customers in database software development and support.
• Experience in root cause analysis, remediation, and problem resolution for complex systems.
• Working knowledge in database systems architecture, including networking, security, scaling, and fault-tolerance.
• Working knowledge of database internals such as locking, wait events, consistency, logging, recovery.
• Proficiency tuning databases for performance, availability and scalability.
• Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion.
• Familiarity with at least one compiled language (Java, C, C++ ) or scripting languages (Python,shell,Perl)

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