What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Database Administrator (Remote) position at KOHLS?
About the Role
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will drive the development, design, testing, deployment and iterative improvement of database capabilities, features and APIs.
What You’ll Do
Collaborate with designers, product managers, end-users and other engineers on the database team
Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, end-user feedback, and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes
Develop and integrate high-quality database products that are secure, simple to use, easy to operate and fully integrated
Manage all technical aspects related to the database product lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD and documentation
Establish and evangelize database engineering and software development standards
Mentor and assist engineers, driving new ways of improving and simplifying the platform user experience for development teams
Implement software engineering practices using tools that are both cloud-based and on-premises
Responsible for all the database product lifecycle technical aspects, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD, and documentation.
Contribute to creating high-quality, secure, easy-to-use database products that enhance the development team's user experience
Additional tasks may be assigned
What Skills You Have
Required
Ability to turn complex, distributed systems into highly available, fully integrated and easy-to-use products
Experience in development, infrastructure systems, infrastructure operations and infrastructure security
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly
Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer
Preferred
Oracle Certified Associate or equivalent certifications in database technologies
4 years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development
In-depth experience with deploying, configuring, migrating, and supporting common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies such as Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL
In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development practices
Experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP and/or AWS), including an understanding of cloud-native database services
Advanced knowledge and experience working with infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies