Senior Engineer, Database Administration - MySQL

Do you have the desire to be part of a growing and innovative team? Is a culture where “People Count” and “We do the Right Thing” important to you? If so, Guardian Life Insurance Company is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for Guardian Database Systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines.

You are

Seeking to work in a world class database technologist team where our mission our mission is to “Design, Build, Deliver, and Maintain database systems that are issue-free, always-on, highly secure, and peak performing”.  Able to assess issues quickly performing various database technics to restore performance and stability. A faced-paced learner who is eager to learn more about enterprise database technologies who has many of the desired technology competencies listed below.

You will

• Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes

• Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause

• Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements

• Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution

• Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets

• Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles

• Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance

• Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation

• Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses

• Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc.

You have

In-depth knowledge and troubleshooting skills in the following:

Must have skills:

• Demonstrated experience in MySQL Database Administration

• MySQL replication experience

• SQL coding and tuning experience

• Shell scripting and automation experience

• MySQL Enterprise Manager experience

• AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora

• Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform

• Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience

• Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills

• Ability to assess and improve SQL performance

• Understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM

• Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.

• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary

• Expert level MySQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments

• Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles

• Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction

• Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written

• Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving

• Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules

Desired skills:

• Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)

• Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques

• Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus

• Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.

• Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs

• Bachelor’s Degree