Job Title : Cloud Database Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ (Remote Until Contract)

Duration – 6 Months (Contract to hire)

About the Role

Help chart the course for database technology for us. We need top technical talent to supplement our Database Engineering team. This team selects the operational database technologies our company will use, and figures out how best to set them up. We define, design, implement, test, and communicate the architectures, configurations, best practices, and standards for optimal use of database technologies across the company, both on-prem and public cloud. We evaluate new database versions, product enhancements, features, components and extensions for performance, throughput, scalability, availability, monitoring, and security; and we partner with our hosting, database administration, and operational support teams to operationalize and harden database technology for our top-tier financial applications.

This specific posting is for a software/infrastructure engineer with experience in integrating, deploying and running relational and/or NoSQL databases in GCP and/or AWS. The candidate will put these skills to use by evaluating and preparing new and upgraded cloud database offerings offerings for use across Amex, and by documenting, presenting and explaining the appropriate techniques, patterns and best practices for their use to our application development, database administration, and operational support teams.

The candidate will bring solid knowledge of DBMS concepts such as ACID, CAP and consistency. The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprise-scale cloud database deployments, including intra- and inter-data-center high availability configurations, fault tolerance and failover, replication, cluster management, automated provisioning, upgrade techniques, backup & restoration techniques, security mechanisms, health monitoring and alerting techniques, and troubleshooting.

Desirable technical experience for relational technologies including:

Postgres, Oracle, or equivalent relational database technology

GoldenGate or similar logical database replication technology

HA and GDHA using Patroni or similar technology

Terraform, Python or Ansible

Database technology infrastructure including storage, hardware, backup/recovery, monitoring/alerting, security

Desirable technical experience for NoSQL technologies including:

AWS DynamoDB, GCP Firestore and/or BigTable

HA and GDHA using multiple cloud availability zones and regions

Terraform, Python or Ansible

Cloud database technology infrastructure including storage, hardware, backup/recovery, monitoring/alerting, security

Additional desirable attributes:

Skill at the Unix command line

The ability to write code or script, e.g. for test harnesses or other database-related tools and utilities

Experience as a database administrator and/or a Unix system administrator

Knowledge of virtualization and cloud infrastructures, and of implementations such as VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker

Knowledge of modern storage and compute technologies, including hyper-converged infrastructures

Bachelor’s degree preferred.