Dimensional Fund Advisors

Senior Database Platform Engineer

Dimensional Fund Advisors Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Financial Services · 1,001-5,000 employees

3 d ago
Remote Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

The Senior Database Platform Engineer will architect, automate, and maintain secure, scalable database platforms while collaborating with business and technology teams. They are responsible for establishing best practices in code quality, deployment, and infrastructure management.

What they look for

Database architecture Automation Cloud platforms SQL NoSQL Python Powershell Infrastructure as code Terraform Ansible Containerization CI/CD Kafka REST APIs Database security SDLC

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and over 10 years of experience in database engineering and scripting languages. Proficiency in cloud platforms, SQL/NoSQL, and infrastructure-as-code tools is required for this role.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits Educational initiatives

Full description

Job Description:

The Senior Database Platform Engineer will work as part of a team to create and refine innovative solutions to empower our business.  This multi-discipline role will enable the business and technology teams to leverage various data platform technologies at a high level.  The Engineer will enable users to provision, analyze and consume data via performant, secure and scalable database platforms.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Architects and automates database platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, issue remediation, and security.
  • Applies expert understanding and troubleshooting of complex database systems.
  • Establishes, implements, and maintains best practice standards around code quality, deployment, security, architecture, and automation.
  • Collaborates with business and technology teams to accomplish engineering project goals.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience engineering for database engines (ex: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake)
  • 10+ years of experience programming interpreted scripting languages (Python and/ or Powershell)
  • 7+ years of experience working with cloud platforms in various cloud service providers (ex: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, RDS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
  • 8+ years of experience using SQL or NoSQL based languages
  • 8+ years of experience using and developing with configuration management products and applying Infrastructure as Code principles (ex; Terraform, Ansible, Powershell DSC, Puppet, Chef, Cloud Formation, etc.)
  • 5+ years of experience working with containerized platforms
  • Expert knowledge of relevant database platform engine internals, infrastructure and concepts
  • Expert knowledge of CI/CD and SDLC workflow (Ex: JIRA, Git, Github, Github Actions, Liquibase, Jenkins, Octopus, DbUp, etc.)
  • Experience working with Kafka
  • Experience working and developing with/on REST APIs and other non-DB direct interfaces
  • Applies a high bar for database platform architecture and security to solutions
  • Embodies and applies an engineering mindset to all aspects of their role
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  Able to communicate complex concepts to various audiences helping them to understand the benefits of technologies and recommended course of action

PREFERRED

  • Experience working with or interest in object-oriented programming languages (ex: C#, Java, C++, etc.)

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