Chennai, India

Chennai, India

AT&T Consumer is looking for a Senior Database administrator who is passionate about the eCommerce industry and has analytical and multi-task abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment. This role requires familiarity with a wide variety of data platforms, including Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, SOLR, ElasticSearch and Oracle.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsible for database configuration, reliability, recoverability, performance, and the installation, maintenance, and upgrade of database software and related components.

Responsible for providing operational database support for databases on many different DBMS (database management systems) software levels and versions, utilizing a wide variety of DBMS features, on many different operating system platforms for applications of differing complexities, disaster priority, mission critical designation, strategic initiatives, degree of standardization, practices, and usage of third-party software. Such responsibilities typically include advanced featured databases for complex environments for high priority applications.

The operational database support responsibilities include those related to availability, performance, currency, integrity, security, and confidentiality of the database instances, database backups and recoveries, database disaster recovery, data replication, database growth and disk space utilization, database problem analysis and resolution, configuration files, operating system account and system level schemas, tablespaces, database patches, database upgrades, database compatibilities, database bugs and workarounds, database vendor support process, database documentation, new database release features and enhancements, special features associated with the physical DBMS (such as clusters), applications consultation, Cassandra and SQL tuning and object management, automation, and project implementation activities, such as physical design and installation of database environments and database.

May also be responsible for project design and estimating, DBMS product certification, DBMS product or feature subject matter expert/point of contact consultation, direction and guidance regarding database management system features, best practices development and implementation, and standards development and implementation.

Required Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.

· 6+ years of experience in working in Database, Data Management, or Engineering roles

· 4+ years of progressive experience in high volume/high transaction data administration

· 4+ years of experience managing NoSQL databases such as (Cassandra/MongoDb/CosmosDB)

· 4+ years of experience in performance tuning and database monitoring

· 2+ years of experience in Kafka/EventHub, Redis, SOLR/ElasticStack


Preferred Qualifications:

· 2+ years of experience in Relational Technologies PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL

· 2+ years of experience in architecture and design of data systems using multiple data platforms

· Proficiency in Unix/Linux command line

· Expert knowledge and experience working with asynchronous message processing, stream processing and event driven computing.

· Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban development team

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders

Technical Skills:

Cassandra, PostGreSQL, CosmosDB, MongoDb, Oracle, Kafka/EventHub, Redis, Solr, ElasticStack, Prometheus/Grafana, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.

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