Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Role Overview
The Senior DBRE joins a central Database Systems Engineering team supporting enterprise data services and platforms.
The role designs, supports, and optimizes on-premise and cloud database platforms for critical business and operational processes.
The engineer works with global development teams and business segments to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure data services.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The Senior DBRE joins a central Database Systems Engineering team supporting enterprise data services and platforms.
The role designs, supports, and optimizes on-premise and cloud database platforms for critical business and operational processes.
The engineer works with global development teams and business segments to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure data services.
Database Platform Delivery
- Architect, manage, and optimize enterprise Microsoft SQL Server platforms across on-premise and cloud environments.
- Lead database performance tuning and high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies.
- Implement and monitor backup and recovery procedures and perform capacity planning.
- Serve as a database technology SME to resolve issues and recommend platform improvements.
- Troubleshoot complex workloads, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement solutions.
- Collaborate with developers, cloud architects, and DevOps teams on reliable, scalable systems.
Automation and Engineering
- Automate provisioning, scaling, backups, and routine operations using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and related tools.
- Participate in CI/CD pipelines for automated database testing and deployment.
- Implement monitoring, observability, and logging strategies.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute technical documentation and system diagrams.
- Create system diagrams, performance analyses, and architecture documentation for leadership review.
Required Qualifications
- At least 7 years managing enterprise Microsoft SQL Server database environments.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 through 2022 and experience with SSAS, SSRS, and SSIS.
- Strong T-SQL and PowerShell scripting skills and SQL Server migration and modernization experience.
- Deep high-availability, disaster-recovery, SQL Server security, and performance-tuning expertise.
- Experience with capacity planning, database monitoring, Windows Server, AWS, Azure, hybrid architecture, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to Have
- Oracle or PostgreSQL administration and support experience.
- Containerization and orchestration expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, or DockerEE.
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