Headway Tek Inc Looking for Database Engineer in Devops role with AWS at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time

Role: Database Engineer in DeVops role with AWS

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: Contract

Note: Candidate is expected to have AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification or else get certified within 3 weeks after joining.

Database Admin/DevOps experience in:

– Oracle 19c, RDS Aurora Postgres DB upgrades

– NoSQL Database/Distributed Data Stores – MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, plus AWS Elasticsearch

Skills in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) / Certified

– Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud

CloudFormation template and automation for database operations

python scripting and automation

Major knowledge and skills required:

– Database designing, implementing, and capacity planning

– Install, configure, via Cloud Formation/Automation

– Evaluate data analysis models and procedures

– Develop tools to manage data stores

– Implement, configure, and troubleshoot database instances, replication

– Understanding of disaster recovery and implement solutions for RPO and RTO within SLAs

– Understanding of data import/ export procedures

– Advanced knowledge of database structure, database security issues

– Provide end-to-end technical resolutions and RCA

– Monitor and optimize system performance using index tuning, disk optimization, and other methods.

– Data replication across data centers

– Aurora Postgres and AWS Elasticsearch

– Amazon DynamoDB knowledge is nice to have (not priority)

Automation through shell scripts/python to automate DB setup, day-to-day operations

– Should be a strong python developer along with AWS

– Technical Stack – Ansible, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Elastic Search

– Ability to write Dockerfiles and Kubernetes yaml definitions from scratch.