What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Database Reliability Engineer - Hybrid position at Charles Schwab?
Position Type : RegularYour opportunity
At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.
Schwab is transforming peoples lives by changing the way the world invests, and this is a unique opportunity to help shape the technical direction of our modernization and Cloud initiatives. We are recruiting to hire an experienced technologist as a Senior NoSQL Database Reliability Engineer for our Availability and Platform Support initiatives within the Aerospike Administration and Operations team. We are seeking a results-oriented technologist with a passion and proven track record for DB support, automation and delivery at scale. This role is for an individual contributor focused on leading, inspiring and collaborating with a team of highly motivated and talented technicians in meeting our business-driven technology objectives.
What youll do :
Will be responsible for administration and maintenance of Aerospike NoSQL database
Perform database upgrades, OS patching, performance tuning and support activities
Create scripts to automate database maintenance and administration tasks
Understand upcoming database features and provide guidance to the application teams
Benchmarking new features and their impact to the application availability and performance
Participate in database capacity planning activities for new application features
Review application database design and provide critical feedback
Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve unique operations problems on a large enterprise and mission critical applications
Document and maintain standard operating procedures w.r.t the database
Aerospike in the cloud setup in Kubernetes cluster
What you have
Required Qualifications :
7 years of experience with administration and support of Enterprise NoSQL databases like Aerospike, MongoDB
7 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up Alerts for early determination of the issues
In depth knowledge of database concepts, replication strategies and high availability architectures
Experience with database backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, performance tuning activities
Familiarity with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning
Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, Java, Powershell, Python, and Bash
Working knowledge of logging aggregation tools such as Splunk, promethus, grafana or similar tools
Previous experience in GitHub and harness
Previous experience in using SALT or Ansible for automation of operational database tasks
Preferred Qualifications :
Financial services industry experience
Experience with cloud providers like GCP, AWS
Agile methodologies
Strong customer orientation with an affinity to proactively own, communicate, and follow-through projects and issues
Extreme sense of ownership to resolve problems in a distributed environment
A self-starter with the ability and confidence to independently resolve issues and bring results back to the team
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future :
401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
Paid parental leave and family building benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Health, dental, and vision insurance
