Cloud Database Engineer
- Ford
- 2 - 3 years
- Chennai
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and optimizing our GCP relational/NoSQL databases, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for the databases hosted in GCP.
The work will be performed in the Chennai, India as a member of a team of Cloud DB engineers. There will be occasional off-shift work to provide On-Call coverage (in a rotation) for production-support incidents and to support scheduled changes to applications after hours.
Key Responsibilities:
- Database Administration : Manage and administer Cloud databases, ensuring their optimal performance and reliability.
- Platform Expertise : Demonstrate proficiency in working with databases on GCP Cloud, with experience across other platforms being advantageous.
- Growth Environment : Operate effectively within a rapidly growing environment, anticipating and responding to emerging needs.
- Design and Development : Design, develop, and enhance production and test databases within the technical architecture.
- Monitoring : Continuously monitor database systems to ensure their stability and performance.
Desired Experience:
- Database Administration: Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
- Cloud DBs: Experience working with databases on Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, or AWS.
- CloudSQL Support: Supporting PostgreSQL/SQL Server on Google Cloud.
- Migration: Experience in migrating Oracle/SQL Server to GCP Cloud SQL PostgreSQL/SQL Server.
- Scripting: Unix shell scripting and Terraform development for provisioning GCP Databases.
- Authentication: Experience with SSL and IAM authentication for GCP Databases.
- Migration Tools: Familiarity with ora2pg and GCP Database Migration Service (DMS).
- Pipeline Development: Experience with Tekton pipeline development (nice to have).
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Technical Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical teams.
- Database Products: Working experience with SQL Server & PostgreSQL.
- Certifications: GCP Relational/NoSQL Database experience and GCP Database Engineer or Architect certification.
- Terraform: Experience using Terraform in cloud maintenance
- PostgreSQL Expertise: Experience in PostgreSQL database architecture, logical and physical design, automation, documentation, installs, shell scripting, PL/SQL programming.
- Query Tuning: Proficient in query tuning, system tuning, resource contention analysis, backup and recovery, standby, replication, etc.
- Self-Starter: Must be a self-starter with a strong desire to learn new technologies.
Technical Responsibilities:
- Experience: Minimum 4+ years in IT, with 2-3+ years specifically in Relational and NOSQL Databases.
- Cloud Expertise: Proficient in relational and NoSQL databases on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Configuration Management: Manage, monitor, and report on databases hosted in GCP environments.
- Optimization: Configure and optimize applications for resource usage, including hybrid cloud deployments.
- Performance: Optimize database workloads for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL and monitor/tune database performance.
- Backup and Recovery: Define and implement robust database backup and recovery strategies.
- Database Changes: Assist in planning and implementing database and application changes.
- Evaluation: Evaluate new database products and features.
- Space Management: Perform database space management, reorganizations, backups, and recovery.
- Troubleshooting: Identify and solve database-related issues, including off-shift coordination with cloud providers.
- Liaison: Act as the point of contact for application developers and business customers regarding cloud environments.
- Security: Ensure adherence to database security protocols.
- Performance Tuning: Conduct performance tuning and capacity management.
Functional Responsibilities:
- Business Continuity: Knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Process Improvement: Adhere to processes, drive improvements, and manage knowledge.
- Problem Management: Involve in problem management and mentoring junior team members.
- Communication: Attend global meetings and cascade inputs to the team.
- Incident Management: Manage incidents/tickets queue and adhere to SLA.
Job Classification
Industry: Auto ComponentsFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: DBA / Data warehousing
Role: Database Administrator
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: FordLocation(s): Chennai
Keyskills: Performance tuning Automation Production support Configuration management Shell scripting Database administration PLSQL Troubleshooting SQL Physical design
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