Dimensional Fund Advisors

Senior Database Platform Engineer

Dimensional Fund Advisors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Austin • Texas • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAnsibleAWSAzureBigQueryChefCloudJenkinsKafkaMongoDBNoSQLPostgresPuppetPythonSDLCSQLTerraform

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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
Benefits
  • comprehensive benefits
  • educational initiatives
  • special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth
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Hard Skills & Tools
database provisioningdatabase configurationdatabase monitoringdatabase securitySQL ServerPostgreSQLMongoDBSnowflakePythonPowershell
Soft Skills
collaborationtroubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunicationproject management