Senior Database Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Database Platform Engineer: Creating and refining innovative solutions to empower the business by enabling users to provision, analyze, and consume data via performant, secure, and scalable database platforms with an accent on database platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, issue remediation, and security. Focus on expert understanding and troubleshooting of complex database systems, establishing best practice standards around code quality, deployment, architecture, and automation.

Location: Hybrid in Austin

Company

hirify.global offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

What you will do

• Architect and automate database platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, issue remediation, and security.
• Apply expert understanding and troubleshooting of complex database systems.
• Establish, implement, and maintain best practice standards around code quality, deployment, security, architecture, and automation.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to accomplish engineering project goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience engineering for database engines (ex: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake)
• 10+ years of experience programming interpreted scripting languages (Python and/ or Powershell)
• 7+ years of experience working with cloud platforms in various cloud service providers (ex: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, RDS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• 8+ years of experience using SQL or NoSQL based languages
• 8+ years of experience using and developing with configuration management products and applying Infrastructure as Code principles (ex; Terraform, Ansible, Powershell DSC, Puppet, Chef, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience working with containerized platforms
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD and SDLC workflow (Ex: JIRA, Git, Github, Github Actions, Liquibase, Jenkins, Octopus, DbUp, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience working with or interest in object-oriented programming languages (ex: C#, Java, C++, etc.)

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.