Database Eng II - AMZ000560

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Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Offered Position: Database Engineer II - AMZ000560

Job Location: Seattle, WA

Position Responsibilities: Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale

databases that are crucial to the successful operation of Amazon’s global physical security

platform. Support and administer databases for performance critical, highly available, massively

concurrent, distributed systems on a Linux platform. Establish and maintain security and integrity

controls, and formulate and monitor policies, procedures, and standards relating to data

management. Establish and calculate optimum database parameters and specify users and user

access levels. Migrate performance-critical, high availability systems between managed and un

managed database services. Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and

perform database monitoring using tooling, PL/SQL, and Shell scripting, security monitoring,

troubleshooting, and resolution of system failures. Work with third-party vendors and software

development teams to deliver highly available, low-latency services. Gather requirements,

model, design, develop, test, implement, support, and tune high availability data. Participate in

design reviews with software teams, and drive feedback on architecture, design, system

integration, performance, and scalability issues as it pertains to databases. Assist in developing

long-term department database technology strategies, and influence cross-company database

engineering processes and standards. 100% Telecommuting Permitted.

Requirements: Position Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Networking, Information

Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, plus three years of experience in

the job offered or related

occupation or a Bachelor's degree in Networking, Information Technology, Computer Science,

Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Must have three years of experience in the following: Performing Linux and/or Windows Systems

administration; (2) Performing Network administration such as: (a) DNS, (b)

DHCP, (c) TCP/IP, (d) Load Balancing, (e) HTTP (f) NAT (g) BGP, or (h) software-based (IPSEC &

SSL) VPN solutions; (3) Working with one of the following database administration technologies:

(a) MySQL, (b) Oracle, (c) PostgreSQL, or (d) MS-SQL; (4) Working with one of the following NoSQL

technologies: (a) DynamoDB, (b) Redis, (c) MongoDB, or (d) Cassandra; (5) Working with ETL tools

in managing data workflow jobs; (6) Performing Hadoop system administration with experience

with one of the following: (a) Hive, (b) Spark, (c) HDFS, (d) Presto, (e) Yarn, (f) Sqoop, (g) Python,

or (h) shell scripting

40 hours/week, 8:00am – 5:00pm, Salary Range $150,197 to $168,800