Database Automation - Principal Systems Engineer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

This position supervises and develops multi-platform converged enterprise engineering solutions targeted to meet existing, enhanced, and new platform solutions for business and infrastructure services. Leads, directs, or recommends cross-functional team targeted for system enhancements for system performance, reliability, scalability, and capacity. Evaluates product and service solutions.

The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles. Essential Responsibilities:

Database & Server DevOps:

Develop database automation for NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Couchbase and RDBMS like (PostgreSQL, DB2, Sybase) to do the following:

• Database server builds
• Apply server OS & database security patching

Collaborate with development teams to support agile release cycles and cloud-native applications.

Programming & Automation:

Develop scripts and automation tools using Ansible, Python, Bash, PowerShell, and Unix Shell.

Participate in off hours code deployments, disaster recovery exercises and be part of our on call support rotation (approx. one week every 2 months)

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Hands-on experience of administering(DBA) with any one or more NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Couchbase and RDBMS like (PostgreSQL, DB2, Sybase).
• Experience with database install, security, risk, audit, monitoring, access control, backup/restore, patching, vulnerability management using automation tool like Ansible.
• Experience in Linux based systems.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud infrastructure (Network, IAM, IaaS, PaaS etc.)
• Extensive experience of Azure (PaaS – RDMBS and NoSQL)/AWS Database Services (RDBMS – RDS and NoSQL) and other native services.
• Strong experience with DevOps methodology and tooling (GitLab or GitHub, VSCode etc)
• Experience in programing language, specifically python or C#.
• Excellent documentation and articulation skills.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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