Job Description

Senior Database Engineer:


We're looking for Senior Database Engineers with AWS expertise and who enjoy challenging problems.

Our stack includes .NET, MSSQL, Postgres and Python deployed on Amazon Web Services.



About the Role

In this opportunity as a Sr. Database Engineer, you will:

• Be a team player: Collaborate with other software engineers as the MSSQL SME to design, build, and optimize our real-time, multi-tenant DB based product
• Develop and Deliver:
• Design and build real-time analytics and aggregations and compatible tech can offer for data pipelines
• Scale and optimize performance via schema design, query tuning, and index creation
• Build highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure leveraging both MSMSQL/Postgres and AWS (RDS and SQL on EC2)
• Leverage continuous build and deployment tools and practices
• Perform monitoring, backup, and automation
• Investigate and triage complex technical issues with databases, storage, and networks in production environments
• Ensure accurate documentation exists for all services and solutions
• Build and maintain a deep working knowledge of all technical and business initiatives
• Ensure established SLAs are met or exceeded, with supporting reports or dashboards
• Be innovative: Implement solutions in response to new or existing business objectives and timelines
• Be an Agile Person: With a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you will deliver solutions against strict timelines


About You

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

• A Bachelor's Degree or Master`s in Computer Science discipline, and at least 1 AWS Certification is a must.
• 5+ years of experience as a Database engineer and 2+ years on the AWS Cloud platform
• Experience in Database Administration, Configuration, Installation, Upgrading, Architecture Design, and Troubleshooting of SQL Server 2016
• Maintained many Production databases in Terabytes under critical industry domains.
• SQL Server Migration and Upgradation
• Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions - Log shipping, Mirroring, Replication, and Always On.
• Optimize existing code and designed indexes to improve Application Performance.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and release deployment activities.
• Perform database logical and physical design, maintenance, tuning, archiving, backups, replication, recovery, software upgrades, capacity planning, and optimization for SQL Server database
• Maintain database Standard and Security as defined at the Enterprise level. Expert understanding of role, profile, grants, and privileges, providing and setting up DB access at a different level for different groups of users.
• Experience in investigating and remediating complex SQL Server performance issues across the entire SQL Server product stack: relational DB objects (stored procedures, functions, indexes) and SSRS reports.
• Meet recovery objectives RPO, RTO, and SLA's regarding the databases for SQL Server Disaster Recovery
• Conducting root cause analysis for critical issues with problem fixes. Provided SME support and recommendations for other clients.
• Good to have exposure to automation using SQL job or scripting for SQL Server DB Monitoring and Migration.
• Documented Knowledge base articles and User Manual Operations guide for database team


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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 cafe 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.


Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.


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.

Accessibility


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