What are the responsibilities and job description for the Database Engineer II - AMZ17522.4 position at Amazon?
Description
Employer: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc
Position: Database Engineer II
Location: Tempe, AZ
Multiple Positions Available:
1. Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of our global physical security platform.
2. Support and administer multiple Oracle databases for performance critical, highly available, massively concurrent, distributed systems on a Linux platform.
3. Establish and maintain security and integrity controls, and formulate and monitor policies, procedures, and standards relating to data management.
4. Establish and calculate optimum database parameters, and specify users and user access levels.
5. Migrate performance-critical, high availability systems between managed and un-managed database services.
6. Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and perform database monitoring using tooling, PL/SQL, and Shell scripting, security monitoring, troubleshooting, and
resolution of system failures.
7. Work with the third-party vendors and software development teams to deliver highly available, low latency services.
8. Gather requirements, model, design, develop, test, implement, support, and tune high availability data.
9. Participate in design reviews with software teams, and drive feedback on architecture, design, system integration, performance, and scalability issues as it pertains to databases.
10. Assist in developing long-term department database technology strategies, and influence cross-company database engineering processes and standards.
Basic Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology or a related field and followed by 5 progressively responsible years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation
Must have five years of experience in the following skill(s):
(1.) Designing, administering and supporting multiple databases for performance critical, highly available systems on Oracle and Linux platform;
(2.) data modeling;
(3.) conducting performance tuning, backup, recovery, scalability, and capacity planning; and
(4.) utilizing SQL and PL/SQL
Preferred Qualifications
All applicants must meet all the above listed requirements.
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