Cloud DBA

Cloud DBA

Location: Atlanta GA

Client: Mindtree / Equifax

Rate: $50-53/hr C2C. MAX

Visa: H1b, GC, USC

Role Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science preferred) with 5+ year's experience as a DBA managing databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Datastore, etc) in Linux environment.

• Experience in a technical database engineering role, such as software development, release management, deployment engineering, site operations, technical operations, etc.

• Production DBA experience with NoSQL databases.

• Actively monitor existing databases to identify performance issues, and give application teams guidance and oversight to remediate performance issues.

• Excellent troubleshooting/problem solving and communication skills.

• Scripting/Programming (Unix shell, Python, etc.) experience is highly desirable

What will make you stand out?

• Experience with other Big Data technologies is a plus.

• Experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL database administration is a plus.

• Knowledge Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.

• Linux system administration.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for database deployments, and monitor for capacity, performance, and/or solving issues.

• Experience with backup/recovery, sizing and space management, tuning, diagnostics, and proficient with administering multiple databases.

• Enable/Integrate monitoring, auditing, and alert systems for databases with existing monitoring infrastructure.

• Responsible for working with development teams in evaluating new database technologies and provide SME guidance to development teams.

• Responsible for system performance and reliability.

• Occasional off-shift on-call availability to resolve Production issues or assist in Production deployments.

• Thorough knowledge of UNIX operating system and shell scripting.

• Good Experience in databases like, Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Datastore, in Linux environment.

• Perform independent security reviews of critical databases across the organization to ensure the databases are aligned with Equifax Global Security Policies, Access Control Standards and industry standard methodologies.

• Experience with Cloud technologies like AWS, GCP, Azure is required.

• DBA ought to ensure the databases are highly available, have sufficient capacity in place and are fully resilient across multiple data centers and cloud architectures.

• You should be able to uphold high standards, learn and adopt new methodologies and tackle new challenges in everyday work.

We want our DBA to be on the state of the art of technologies constantly seeking to improve performance, and uptime of the database systems.

• Handle NoSQL databases in all SDLC environments including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, replication, upgrades, etc.

Primary Skills: Cloud DB