Sr.Site Reliability Engineering - DBA, DB2, NoSQL

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JOB SCOPE

As an engineer in this team, the individual will be involved in the build and run activities related to database technology and infrastructure. The role will contribute to the design, architect, solution engineering, and support, will be responsible for delivering database projects, maintaining the running systems, able to perform problem analysis and troubleshooting. The individual should be well versed in database administration practices and principles.  The individual will share the responsibility of overall database build, deployment, and support. He or she will provide technical influence and subject matter expertise for the database team, responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. The role serves as a technical functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Primarily the deployment and support of this database technology. 

* Support Database Platform Engineering in the development and deployment of DB2 LUW and DB2 partitioned databases DPF in high SLA environments. Support   NoSQL technologies like MongoDB, Cassandra, and Redis will be a plus.

* Manage, support and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.

* Experienced technologist with strengths in problem determination and technical support for high volume production database systems.

* Plan and define prerequisites for the database implementation such as operating system, storage and network requirements.

* Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participating in on-call rotation.

* Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain DB2 LUW databases in production and non-production environments.

* Support local failover with TSA and High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) environment. Participate in Database Maintenance and DR activities.

* Write/maintain OS level scripts for DB automation and application maintenance.

* Physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions. 

* Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of L1, escalated Level 2 and Level3 issues.

* Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same.

* Work closely with other Engineering teams, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA’s and performance targets.

* Adapt business requirements, model data, and develop database specifications, table, and element attributes.

* Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other technology field is a must.
• Experience: 4 to 5 years of DBA experience, generally with DB2 LUW and exposure to NoSQL database like Cassandra.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.