André Global Inc. is a global provider of information technology services. Since 2002, we have helped our clients in the APAC region achieve their business goals by leveraging the power of technology. In 2016, we entered the AMERICAS to re-create similar success here as well. Headquartered in New York City, we are now serving our global clients.
We strive to deliver customer satisfaction through our service quality to all our clients!
Our global and diverse team helps our customers achieve their project goals at a faster pace with high affordability but without any compromise on quality. We take pride in providing an outstanding quality of service to all our customers starting from startups, small businesses to Fortune 500.
With more than a decade of experience servicing customers across geographies, we have stationed ourselves at a unique position in the global market. Our ability to assemble the best workforce in record time has been a great asset to our clients.
This is a contract-to-hire position with our Insurance Client.
Location: Bethlehem, PA or Holmdel, NJ. Local candidates preferred. The Database Service is scheduled to work Monday through Friday 8:00 AM ET till 5:00 PM ET. Today we are working 3-days remote and 2-days in the office. We operate on a 24x7x365 using an on-call rotation which the candidate will be a part of.
Client is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for company Database Systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines.
You HaveIn-depth knowledge and troubleshooting skills in the following:
Must Have Skills

• 10 years of UDB DBA experience
• Migration of UDB databases.
• Experience on partitioned databases.
• Database utility experience including reorg, runstats, bind etc.
• SQL coding and tuning experience.
• Shell scripting and automation experience
• Working with tools like IBM Data studio and other tools.
• AWS/Cloud Services experience.
• Database monitoring and tuning experience.
• Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
• HADR experience.
• Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience
• Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
• Ability to assess and improve SQL performance
• Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
• Expert level UDB RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
• Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
• Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
• Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving
• Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules

Desired Skills

• Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
• Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
• Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus
• Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
• Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs
• Bachelor's Degree or similar required

You Will

• Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes
• Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause
• Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements
• Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution
• Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets
• Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles
• Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance
• Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
• Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses
• Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc.