Lead cloud engineer Dallas Tampa jersey city Boston

Job Description

Lead cloud engineer Dallas Tampa jersey city Boston

Experience level: Associate Experience required: 8 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Pay rate : View hourly payrate Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No

The duration will be extended to 6 months as this is a Contract to Hire role.

About this Opportunity

The Database Engineering team is responsible for managing the Distributed Databases, Automation, and Business intelligence technologies. The Principal Database Engineer (AWS RDS Cloud DBA / Data Engineer) is part of the Aurora PostgreSQL Database team and responsibilities include:

• Automate AWS Services using Terraform and Groovy

• Contribute to Cloud strategy discussions and decisions on overall Cloud design and best approach for implementing Cloud Data solutions.

• Define best practices and procedures to migrate applications from on-premises to public cloud

• Develop standards and procedures for all aspects of Data Platforms in the Cloud.

• Identify system enhancements and automation opportunities for installing/maintaining Data Platforms

• Support and manage Distributed Database Technologies related to Aurora PGS.

• Adhere to best practices on Incident, Problem and Change management

• Lead projects independently with minimal guidance.

• Responsible for managing and supporting Aurora PostgreSQL database platforms working closely with AWS, application support teams, technical support team and team members

• Installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining database instances both on premises and on AWS EC2 cloud

• Recommending and implementing database security policies

• Recommending and implementing database backup, recovery, and redundancy strategies

• Implementing automated procedures to proactively handle issues and alerts.

• Working independently to perform database performance analysis, capacity planning, system sizing and ongoing maintenance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Extensive experience with Automation using Terraform

• Strong knowledge of operating systems (Unix / Linux)

• Hands on experience with Shell and Python scripting (added advantage) to automate tasks enabling self-healing capabilities.

• Strong Knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture

• Hands-on experience with AWS Services, e.g., Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB.

• Extensive coding experience (Java; Python; Bash; NodeJS; (C/C++ - a plus)

• Able to handle tasks and projects independently with minimum guidance and directions

• Should be able to research, design, document and implement new Database related services independently

• Strong experience in Backup and recovery processes

• Demonstrated ability to work in a complex environment to determine business and customer needs and provide the best solution needed

Skills