Job Description
At TSYS, we are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth, scaling, extremely high performance, and high availability requirements. Do these types of challenges excite you?
TSYS is seeking talented database engineers who will innovate and engineer solutions around database technology. We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about applying bold new ideas to solving real-world data problems. Candidates must be able to translate customers' needs and use cases into technical innovation and robust engineering solutions on both on-prem and cloud infrastructure. The Database Engineering team is actively engaged in the ongoing database engineering process, partnering with development groups, and providing deep subject matter expertise to feature design.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep knowledge and experience designing, maintaining, and optimizing Oracle, DynamoDB, Redis, and SQL Server databases.
- Experience with database replication technologies for high availability and disaster recovery.
- Familiarity with AWS Services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, DMS etc.)
- Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems
- Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.
- Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
- Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability
- Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage.
- Awareness of emerging technologies and approaches in IT
- Proficiency in Python and Groovy for automation and scripting.
- Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine is a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database flavors (e.g. Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL)
- On-call for production databases - daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer and dev support
- Exposure to cloud environments and architectures
- Experienced in various Clustering and Sharding architectures
- Experience with data ingestion techniques and pipelines to process the importing, transferring, loading, and processing data for later use or storage in a database.
- Experience with CDC and/or Striim data ingestion for real-time updates, log-based mechanism, streaming, or any other related technique would be a plus
- Experience with DBT scripts is must
- Snowflake experience or knowledge is a plus
What Are We Looking For in This Role?
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Relevant Experience or Degree in: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related field
- Typically Minimum 6 Years Relevant Exp
- With the Installation, Customization, Testing and Maintenance of database systems within a production environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- BE in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related field
- 8+ years professional Experience In DB schema designing, developing DB scripts.
- Strong understanding of the DB transaction internals.
- Strong understanding of SQL and query performance tuning.
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