Senior Systems Engineer, Database Administration - Starcom consulting limited

JOB SUMMARY

Required:

Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification

7+ years' experience in technology infrastructure application delivery (operations) that includes:

5+ years of experience with database platforms along with their high availability design implementations (listed in priority order):

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 LUW, MySQL, Postgres,

NoSQL: DocumentDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, Cockroach

Cloud Native DBaaS (e.g., AWS RDS)

ElasticCache (Redis)

3+ years of experience in Agile/DevOps methodologies

3+ years with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, ACK, or OpenShift)

3+ years of experience with cloud technology and its concepts (AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba) including networking, security, and IAM

3+ years' Infrastructure and Configuration Management-as-Code Services

Terraform Enterprise, Vault Enterprise

Ansible or Ansible Tower

3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation through scripting with Python, Ruby, PowerShell, and/or UNIX scripting languages.

Networking fundamentals

Ability to independently research and recommend tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT technology across the enterprise.

Ability to drive an idea or concept to an actual solution with significant autonomy.

Ability to design highly resilient systems that support 99.9% uptime.

Ability to create constructive relationships, influence, and communicate (to project team, IT management, and non-technical staff).

Preferred:

Graduate Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Experience with observability tooling: Dynatrace APM Grail, Splunk, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs

Experience with security tool integration and methods (e.g., SSO, MFA, WAM): Vault, Thycotic, Ping Access, PAM/SSSD, Waratek

Ransomware protection tools/methods

DevOps Tooling: Helm, Harness, Backstage, Jenkins, Aqua

Confluent Cloud (Kafka)

Experience with some of these middleware products: DataPower, MQSeries, MQ, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache Web, IBM Integration Bus (AppConnect)

One or more cloud certifications.

ITIL V4 foundation certification.

Excellent technical knowledge of current and emerging infrastructure systems and standards.

Project planning and management experience.

Excellent understanding of change management and testing requirements, techniques, and tools.

High availability and disaster recovery strategies and solutions.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Serve as one of the department's database platform technology SME's.

Modernizing legacy IT systems

Produce Infrastructure as Code

Provide solutions to lift and shift legacy solutions into the cloud

Provide solutions to transform legacy solutions into cloud native solutions.

Provides technical expertise, oversight, standardization, and validation of the effectiveness of hardware and software infrastructure

Research, design, and engineer high-performing Infrastructure (as code) components that are standards-based, highly available and secured, delivering the required business functionality.

Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions

Educates internal and external users of the technologies to continually improve the knowledge and skill-base of the organization on how best to operate and support the infrastructure services.

Provides documents with a focus on how services will be leveraged in the solution architecture.

Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership

Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate

Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery, operations and continual service improvement processes

Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks

Participates in the evaluation and selection of technology products.

Institutes best practices and ensures proper alignment to projects and major initiatives.

Leads analysis of the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement.

Leads analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine the potential impact on existing and planned architectures.

Managing Projects and Priorities

Functions as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.

Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.

Champions leaders' vision for product and service delivery.

Makes and executes the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.

Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.

Determines priorities, schedules, plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.

Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Reviews vendor proposals and selects appropriate vendor for services/technologies/hardware.

Thinks creatively and practically to develop, execute and implement new project plans.

Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.

Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of operations.

Delivering on the Needs of Key Stakeholders

Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.

Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.

Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.

Supports achievement of performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.

Providing Technical Support and Consultation

Provides technical expertise and technical leadership within own and other teams.

Provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness of processes and programs.

Demonstrates advanced knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.

Demonstrates advanced knowledge of function-specific procedures.

Applies knowledge/judgment to achieve business goals.

Foresees, identifies and resolves problems.

Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.

Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.