Database Engineer

Database Engineer

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Job Description

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Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. 

CoStar Group serves up over 1.8PB of data from more than 800 SQL Servers that span four On-Prem data centers, two continents, and six different time zones and we are now expanding to AWS Cloud solution rapidly and starting to support Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Databricks and MongoDB Atlas and other DB engines on the cloud. 

Our highly motivated, extremely talented DBA group is looking for an exceptionally bright Database Engineer who can support both On-Prem and cloud, that will help the company continue to grow to the next level.  If you are seeking a challenge that pushes your limits, passionate about automating and programming to support databases while working with the latest technologies and are looking for responsibilities beyond that of a typical DBA, come to work with us today.  Our goal is to provide an exceptional experience for our customers through continued development, refinement, and improvement of our industry-leading applications.  As a member of the team, you will be relied on for your problem-solving, communication, collaboration, project management, and process adherence skills.

This position is located in Irvine, CA and offers the following schedule of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week.

Responsibilities

• Administrate and integrate with Microsoft SQL Server so decent MSFT SQL DBA skill is required

• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of all aspects AWS Database Engines (RDS, DynamoDB) 

• Include DB technology evaluation, guidance and consultation, design support, task automation and scripting, best practice and standards development, capacity planning, optimization and tuning, system upgrades and migrations, performance management, monitoring, security, backup and recovery, issue troubleshooting, and documentation.

• Implement and Maintain Automated Processes using TSQL/PowerShell/Python/Terraform scripts.

• Deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain databases in the production, development, and quality assurance environments.

• Understand AWS-based architecture and, closely work with DevOps, SecOps, and Develop scripts to support continuous deployment process and maintain the environment via TFS/Terraform.

• Work with the Operations & Development team planning server/server-less resource requirements to decide the proper size for specific application requirements and performance metrics.

• Process database change requests, including the creation and modification of databases, tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, jobs, etc. in accordance with change control policies.

• Analyze problems, anticipate future problem areas, and implement solutions.

• Work outside of normal business hours as required to complete projects, work on deployments, and resolve system outages.

• Responsible for level 2 systems management and exercises project-level control over initiatives.

• Recommend and implement solutions for performance monitoring and tuning. 

• Carry out assignments with minimal coaching and guidance from others.

• Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards. Uphold and maintain strong documentation. 

• To be placed on on-call rotation for a week every three months and respond to system alerts

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college (preferably in Computer S