Senior Database Engineer

Posted:
9/2/2024, 11:43:46 PM

Location(s):
Telangana, India ⋅ Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics ⋅ IT & Security

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

About the Role:
As a Senior Database Engineer
  • Leads technical and procedural consistency within a team focused on the implementation, service delivery, and support of products, systems, & networks. Leads initiatives for driving down incident rates and working with 1st line operations to improve service recovery times.
  • Leads the implementation process to ensure that all aspects of operability are delivered whilst ensuring that existing service levels are maintained or improved.
  • Complies with operational standards, procedures, and best practice. Operations Engineers within specialist functional teams may have compliance assurance responsibility.  
About you:

You are fit for the role of a Senior Database Engineer role if you have:

  • Support 24x7 Operations/Production SQL Server 2008R2+, SQL Server 2016 and higher SQL server versions.
  • Monitor and act on production issues
  • Enhance SQL monitoring process
  • Review technical documentation for accuracy and completeness
  • Automation through scripting, SSIS package & SSRS Report development
  • Offer expertise and guidance for HA/DR strategies utilizing AGs, Mirroring, Log Shipping, etc.
  • When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance, server configuration changes, index/query changes.
  • Support scheduled and hotfix release deployments.
  • Assist in migrating databases and functionality to AWS and support the AWS environment.
  • Work with additional teams to migrate customer databases between environments (on prem to AWS, non-prod to prod, etc)
  • Candidates should have 5 to 10 years as a Database Analyst/Engineers.
  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred in the following subject areas: Computer Science, Information Technology or related.
  • Strong Proficiency in the following skills is a must: T-SQL, Integration, High Availability Solutions, Query Optimization
  • AWS Experience (specifically designing, implementing, and/or supporting RDS and Aurora)
  • On-call troubleshooting experience
  • Experience monitoring and acting on critical production issues (Datadog exp would be optimal)
  • History of researching and resolving requests
  • Knowledge in reporting and query tools and practices
  • Knowledge in data management and data processing.
  • Knowledge in database systems infrastructure and the underlying hardware.
  • Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
  • Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
  • Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
  • Experience working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills

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What's in it For You?


You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.


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We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

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