kohlscareers
Senior Database Administrator (Remote)
Job description
About the Role
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will drive the development, design, testing, deployment and iterative improvement of database capabilities, features and APIs.
What You’ll Do
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Collaborate with designers, product managers, end-users and other engineers on the database team
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Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, end-user feedback, and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes
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Develop and integrate high-quality database products that are secure, simple to use, easy to operate and fully integrated
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Manage all technical aspects related to the database product lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD and documentation
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Establish and evangelize database engineering and software development standards
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Mentor and assist engineers, driving new ways of improving and simplifying the platform user experience for development teams
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Implement software engineering practices using tools that are both cloud-based and on-premises
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Responsible for all the database product lifecycle technical aspects, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD, and documentation.
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Contribute to creating high-quality, secure, easy-to-use database products that enhance the development team's user experience
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Additional tasks may be assigned
What Skills You Have
Required
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Ability to turn complex, distributed systems into highly available, fully integrated and easy-to-use products
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Experience in development, infrastructure systems, infrastructure operations and infrastructure security
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Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly
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Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer
Preferred
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Oracle Certified Associate or equivalent certifications in database technologies
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4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development
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In-depth experience with deploying, configuring, migrating, and supporting common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies such as Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL
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In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development practices
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Experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP and/or AWS), including an understanding of cloud-native database services
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Advanced knowledge and experience working with infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies
