Job Description
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a talented AWS experienced Cloud System Engineer that is passionate about data management, replication, and data stores of all kinds. Do you have experience in some or all of: AWS RDS, Microsoft SQL Server, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redshift, Oracle? Perhaps you have a bit of development experience? If you do, and you’re looking for a position loaded with multiple technologies and interesting challenges, you may have found what you’re looking for.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud database solutions that meet high availability, performance, and security requirements
- Lead database migration projects from on-premises to cloud environments
- Create and optimize database maintenance and operational procedures
- Develop automation solutions for database operations and monitoring
- Provide technical leadership in database architecture and best practices
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response
- Mentor team members on cloud database technologies and practices
- A forward-looking attitude that keeps you aware of the latest in database and replication technologies.
A day in the life
This team is part of Amazon World Wide Groceries, supporting Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, and Amazon Go. We have a number of cloud migration projects are in flight. This role can be involved with a wide range of activities, from planning and executing application/data migrations to AWS, managing legacy SQL Servers and other on prem environments, to helping teams architect best in class data management strategies and solutions.
About the team
The Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering team is part of the Amazon World Wide Grocery Stores. We are a centralized support team for the DBA's, Window Operating Systems, and VMWare environments at the Whole Foods Market (WFM) data centers, and we ensure WFM teams a successful in their on prem responsibilities, migrations to AWS, and native cloud environments.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of systems engineering or equivalent experience
- Deep technical knowledge of data engineering tech stacks, such as relational databases, data pipelines, NoSQL, transformations, etc.
- Experience migrating databases from on-prem to cloud or running in a hybrid cloud environment
- AWS Associate Level certification(s)
- Can solve significantly complex systems engineering problems; able to deconstruct these into simple solutions
- Excellent diagnostician: anticipates and mitigates patterns that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of systems to drive automation that simplifies workloads that scale operations.
- Proven ability to educate others on maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and infrastructure of team systems.
- Proficient in a broad range of technologies (hardware, software, networking, operating systems) and how they interact with one another in complex systems.
- Ability to self direct and split your time between design, architecture, and critical operations based on where you will have the greatest impact
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Strong understanding of system security and data protection requirements
Job Tags
Full time,