Job Description :
Position: Senior Snowflake and Oracle Cloud DBA with AWS Certification
Location : Southern California or Texas (remote for now)
Duration: Contract to hire
Top Three Skills:
Expert Snowflake DBA
Expert Automation scripting skills Python Preferred
S3
AWS
If a candidate is strong in Oracle and has AWS/RDS experience, the client still wants to see the candidate.
Good Communication is a must. The willingness and hunger to learn new things.
Duties:
Provide production support, solutions and expertise for Cloud Database Platforms
Partner with engineering teams, business units to design, develop and deploy AWS Relational, NoSQL and Data Lake architectures
Ability to troubleshoot difficult issues quickly, deliver RCA and resolve in a 24x7 production environment
Support performance testing and application benchmarking activities
Provide recommendations and guidance for improvements of our design
Collect, monitor and alert on system health metrics
Ability to work off hours/weekends as required for maintenance
Skills/Qualifications
3+ years of production experience supporting Cloud Database Platforms (Aurora, RDS, DocumentDB, Snowflake)
5+ years developing critical platform infrastructure
8+ years of database development support
Experience with on-prem relational systems; Oracle, SQL Server
Experience with NoSQL and columnar data stores
Strong scripting abilities in bash, python
Experience in version control systems, Git and CI/CD
Excellent communication skills. Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills
Experience in building large systems, distributed systems
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
Diligent standards in providing documentation and building repeatable processes
Kerberos and Database authentication using key vault
Knowledge of and experience implementing DevOps principles including Infrastructure-as-code
Nice to haves
At least 1 recent platform certification or specialty in AWS
Proven experience building AWS Infrastructure
Experience in public cloud data warehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, EMR)
Experience in Data Migration Strategies to public cloud