Senior Cloud DBA

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Job Summary – (Role Summary)

The Administrator IT Database Administration will be part of a database engineering team accountable for developing implementation standards to drive operational excellence. This role will require a strong focus on CI/CD database deployment automation. This person is tasked with solving difficult and moderately complex problems. The candidate will be expected to function in an advisory capacity. The Sr Administrator IT Database Administration is a senior individual contributor who may contribute to the development of other junior level professionals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities – (Key Activities)

• SME for CI/CD pipeline for Cloud database deployments in AWS and GCP.
• Develop standards for and support Cloud implementations of Google Cloud SQL(Postgres) AWS Aurora (MySQL/Postgres) and other open-source offerings
• Contributes to the planning, architecture, design, implementation, standards creation, maintenance, and support of databases on a variety of platforms within a complex Hybrid Cloud systems environment
• Performs advanced data analysis, database planning and database coding to develop database environments that meet customer needs.
• Responsible for enhancements to standards documentation and change management policies while promoting code deployment.
• Lead and/or participate in Proof-of-Concept efforts for new automation and database technologies.
• Provides escalation operational support for database systems and participates in on-call rotation
• Responsible for building complex and efficient database environments to maximize productivity and improve performance to include reorganization of database structures as needed, procedures automation at regular intervals, use of tools to reorganize or de-fragment database table spaces, tables, and indexes.
• Manages production testing and QA database environments. This includes providing data load programming, creating necessary utility functions for each data base, system testing and developing an implementation plan.
• Responsible for designing replication and DR solutions and participate in DR activities.
• Provide RCA for critical issues in a timely manner.
• Assists development teams in producing efficient SQL and query tuning.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education –

Bachelor's in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Experience –

• 7+ years of progressive database-related experience(On-premise and Cloud) with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS Aurora MySQL/Postgres, RDS Oracle/SQL Server, and/or DynamoDB.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD deployment technologies

Technical Skills and Knowledge –

• Hands On experience and in-depth knowledge of CI/CD Terraform configuration management tool.
• Hands On experience and in-depth knowledge of CI/CD repositories such as Bitbucket(preferred) and Git.
• Hands On experience and in-depth knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins(preferred), Rundeck, Octopus etc.
• Advanced knowledge of Cloud implementations of MySQL and Postgres databases including physical design, SQL tuning, cluster builds, replication, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with Cloud monitoring tools such as AWS Cloudwatch/Performance Insights and Google Operations/Query Insights
• Advanced level in troubleshooting database performance and outage issues.
• Advanced knowledge of database design and related architecture.

- Hot Skills -

• Cloud Automation tooling expertise – Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, etc.
• AWS Aurora (MySQL/Postgres)
• AWS DynamoDB
• Google Cloud SQL(Postgres)

Certifications/Training

• AWS or GCP architecture or database focus desired
• Terraform desired

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

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Not Applicable for Colorado applicants.