Amazon · 2 weeks ago
Database Engineer II - AMZ17522.4
Tempe, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expAmazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Database Engineer II to own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases for their global physical security platform. The role involves supporting Oracle databases, establishing security controls, and collaborating with vendors and software teams to deliver low latency services.
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Responsibilities
Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of our global physical security platform
Support and administer multiple Oracle 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 the 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
Qualification
Required
A Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology or a related field
5 progressively responsible years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation
Five years of experience in designing, administering and supporting multiple databases for performance critical, highly available systems on Oracle and Linux platform
Data modeling
Conducting performance tuning, backup, recovery, scalability, and capacity planning
Utilizing SQL and PL/SQL
Company
Amazon
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Funding
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$8.11BKey Investors
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2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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