What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Systems Engineer, Database Administration position at Starcom Consultant?
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JOB SUMMARY
JOB SUMMARY
- Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
- 7 years' experience in technology infrastructure application delivery (operations) that includes:
- 5 years of experience with database platforms along with their high availability design implementations (listed in priority order):
- RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 LUW, MySQL, Postgres,
- NoSQL: DocumentDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, Cockroach
- Cloud Native DBaaS (e.g., AWS RDS)
- ElasticCache (Redis)
- 3 years of experience in Agile/DevOps methodologies
- 3 years with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, ACK, or OpenShift)
- 3 years of experience with cloud technology and its concepts (AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba) including networking, security, and IAM
- 3 years' Infrastructure and Configuration Management-as-Code Services
- Terraform Enterprise, Vault Enterprise
- Ansible or Ansible Tower
- 3 years of experience with infrastructure automation through scripting with Python, Ruby, PowerShell, and/or UNIX scripting languages.
- Networking fundamentals
- Ability to independently research and recommend tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT technology across the enterprise.
- Ability to drive an idea or concept to an actual solution with significant autonomy.
- Ability to design highly resilient systems that support 99.9% uptime.
- Ability to create constructive relationships, influence, and communicate (to project team, IT management, and non-technical staff).
- Graduate Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Experience with observability tooling: Dynatrace APM & Grail, Splunk, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs
- Experience with security tool integration and methods (e.g., SSO, MFA, WAM): Vault, Thycotic, Ping Access, PAM/SSSD, Waratek
- Ransomware protection tools/methods
- DevOps Tooling: Helm, Harness, Backstage, Jenkins, Aqua
- Confluent Cloud (Kafka)
- Experience with some of these middleware products: DataPower, MQSeries, MQ, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache Web, IBM Integration Bus (AppConnect)
- One or more cloud certifications.
- ITIL V4 foundation certification.
- Excellent technical knowledge of current and emerging infrastructure systems and standards.
- Project planning and management experience.
- Excellent understanding of change management and testing requirements, techniques, and tools.
- High availability and disaster recovery strategies and solutions.
- Serve as one of the department's database platform technology SME's.
- Modernizing legacy IT systems
- Produce Infrastructure as Code
- Provide solutions to lift and shift legacy solutions into the cloud
- Provide solutions to transform legacy solutions into cloud native solutions.
- Provides technical expertise, oversight, standardization, and validation of the effectiveness of hardware and software infrastructure
- Research, design, and engineer high-performing Infrastructure (as code) components that are standards-based, highly available and secured, delivering the required business functionality.
- Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions
- Educates internal and external users of the technologies to continually improve the knowledge and skill-base of the organization on how best to operate and support the infrastructure services.
- Provides documents with a focus on how services will be leveraged in the solution architecture.
- Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership
- Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
- Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery, operations and continual service improvement processes
- Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks
- Participates in the evaluation and selection of technology products.
- Institutes best practices and ensures proper alignment to projects and major initiatives.
- Leads analysis of the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement.
- Leads analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine the potential impact on existing and planned architectures.
- Functions as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.
- Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
- Champions leaders' vision for product and service delivery.
- Makes and executes the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.
- Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.
- Determines priorities, schedules, plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.
- Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Reviews vendor proposals and selects appropriate vendor for services/technologies/hardware.
- Thinks creatively and practically to develop, execute and implement new project plans.
- Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
- Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of operations.
- Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.
- Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.
- Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.
- Supports achievement of performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
- Provides technical expertise and technical leadership within own and other teams.
- Provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness of processes and programs.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of function-specific procedures.
- Applies knowledge/judgment to achieve business goals.
- Foresees, identifies and resolves problems.
- Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.
- Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.
Salary : $50 - $85
