Cloud & Data Archival Engineer

Job Description

Job Description:

We are a forward-thinking organization at the forefront of cloud and infrastructure technology, driving innovation and empowering our teams to develop cutting-edge applications and solutions that save and improve lives. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous improvement, we foster an environment that values learning, growth, and the sharing of knowledge.

At our core, we are a diverse and talented team of cloud and infrastructure engineers who thrive on challenges and embrace the dynamic nature of technology. Our squad approach allows us to leverage the collective expertise and experience of our engineers, enabling us to deliver robust and scalable cloud and infrastructure capabilities.

We are building a squad of talented cloud and infrastructure engineers who develop the capabilities that empower our application teams to build innovative solutions. As a member of our Engineering and Support Squad, you'll have the chance to:

• Learn and Grow: Kickstart your career in cloud and infrastructure engineering by working on diverse projects and tasks from our product development backlogs. Gain hands-on experience and develop specialized skills under the guidance of experienced mentors. We prioritize skills development and provide ample opportunities for continuous learning.

• Collaboration and Impact: Join a dynamic and collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions matter. Work closely with application teams, architects, and developers to shape the cloud and infrastructure technology landscape, driving innovation and efficiency across our organization.

• Career Progression: As your skills and expertise grow, you'll have the opportunity to transition into positions within our product teams. This pathway allows you to apply your specialized knowledge directly to the development and maintenance of specific products or applications.

• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Be at the forefront of cloud technology advancements. We are committed to staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and leverage cutting-edge tools and platforms to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions. You'll have access to leading cloud providers and work with state-of-the-art infrastructure technology.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Experience with enterprise systems, including servers, storage, databases, and network.

• Focus on designing, developing and managing the DATA ARCHIVAL products that enable us to archive, retrieve and manage the data

• Utilize Oracle/PLSQL for database programming and work with Hive databases.

• Collaborating with business and IT teams to develop Data Archive solutions for Application retirement, Decommissioning and Live Data Archival.

• Design a highly available architecture ensuring services can be consumed as self-service via API/portal by various Product / upstream Infrastructure teams

• Provide help with strategic direction and oversight for the design, development and support of Data Archival infrastructure that includes the full life cycle of technical architecture, engineering and infrastructure operations

• Responsible for designing, implementing, and ensuring the maintenance and compliance to disaster recovery/continuity policies, procedures as needed

• Regularly review cloud infrastructure costs and optimize spend where possible.

• Collaborate with Security, IT Compliance, Engineering, Products, and QA department and continually drive KPI improvements in support of our Hybrid Cloud vision

• Experience with ITIL, Remedy/ServiceNow, CMDB, and Change Control.

• Work with IT leadership to identify, develop, and drive long-term strategies and initiatives that streamline the overall IT business model.

• Act as a subject matter expert and offer help and advice to colleagues from various other teams.

Educational Requirement:

• Required: High School Diploma

• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT Engineering, Math, or equivalent.

Required Experience & Skills

Technical:

• Automation CI/CD methodologies.   

• AWS Cloud (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS).

• System Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

• Oracle, SQL (other databases: CITUS, Hive, etc.).

• Experience on Solix CDP 2.6 or above with sound knowledge of various functionalities which Solix offers such as Active Archiving, Retention Policies, Reports, Forms, etc.

• Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) automation technologies and tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Cloudformation or Terraform).

• designing and deploying AWS Services like Elastic Compute (EC2), EKS, Storages (S3, EBS), EMR, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and RDS.

• Proficiency with scripting languages (ex: Python, Bash, YAML, JSON, etc) is must.

• Working with Agile Frameworks.

• Integrating archival products with databases, file systems and cloud storage.

• Archival product vendors (Such as: OpenText Info Archival, SOLIX, Informatica, etc.).

• End-to-end application archiving for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data from different databases and file sources.

Leadership:

• Ability to connect with customers to understand the needs better and able to handle escalations for issues and get feedback for future improvements.

• Individual must demonstrate a high level of business acumen; ability to get along well with diverse personalities—flexibility is a key.

• Able to develop and adapt business processes after evaluating multiple solutions.

• Lead technology strategy conversations in additional to architecture, design, and integration activities for 3rd party partnerships.

• Fluent in English, in both oral and written communication.

Preferred Experience & Skills
 

Technical:

• 4+ years in designing & developing scalable and high-performance Data archival & retrieval solutions.

• Building data pipelines for efficient data ingestion and retrieval from source systems to archive.

• Experience on Solix CDP 2.6 or above with sound knowledge of various functionalities which Solix offers such as Active Archiving, Retention Policies, Reports, Forms, etc.

Leadership:

• Comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with normal activities in a demanding, fast-paced work environment.

• Tactical, as well as strategic thinking and creative problem solving.

• Ability to drive conversations in meetings/calls and very good presentation skills.

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U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Requisition ID:R343669