Company Description
“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder
Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.
- 18,000 trained professionals
- 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ countries
- Fortune 500
- Globally unified systems
Job Description
The Software Infrastructure team is responsible for the shared technologies our company uses to deliver internal and external systems. We are the custodians of the database standards for the organization and provide IS Portfolio teams with guidance, assistance, and standardized practices. We are looking for a Database Deployment Engineer to help us mature the deployment and delivery of shared database utilities and scripts. You will be assisting to implement industry standard pipelines and automation to an existing library of tools to aid with security. You will also have a key role in developing and implementing our database security standard. As a Database Deployment Engineer, you need to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to improve our infrastructure security in ways that support development team autonomy. You take pride in your excellent customer service. You work well in a team environment and know how to bring out the best in your colleagues. You will contribute by implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Align database build and deployment and other tooling to Company's IT general controls
- Collaborate and educate the Database Administration community on build and deployments methods
- Collaborate with subject matter experts in the organization to gather and share best practices
- Understand the compliance landscape and ensure repositories, pipelines and tooling is up to standard
- Contribute to the furthering of the Core Portfolio's goals for infrastructure as code
This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
- Downtown Seattle
- Federal Way
- Lynnwood
- Bellevue (Factoria)
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with relational database management systems (DB2, PostgreSQL) and understanding of their core concepts
- Scripting experience with sh, ksh, bash, awk, sed, Python, and/or Perl
- Experience with Unix and Microsoft Windows environments
- Experience with build and deployment technologies (Gitlab/ Github)
- Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (Ansible)
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of DB2 and PostgreSQL relational database management systems and concepts
- Experience with database monitoring and observability tooling
- Experience with secrets as a service for database credential management
- Some familiarity with SOX audit requirements
- Experience with the build and deployment of databases at scale
- Familiarity working with distributed systems
- Bachelor's Degree, equivalent working experience or industry certifications
Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity.
Additional Information
Expected base salary: $100,000 to $150,000
Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:
- Paid vacation
- Holidays (10)
- Flexible Days (2)
- Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
- Commuter Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and Personnel Development Program
- Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
- Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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What We Do
Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 (374) company, we employ over 16,500 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 320 locations across six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services.
We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers' supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors' comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility.
To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.
At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."
