Job Title – Principal Database Administrator
The Purpose of This Role
Principal Site reliability engineer is a technical leader responsible for activities related to the Database engineering, stability & reliability of database systems. The tech lead, is expected to engineer database patterns on cloud and come out with strategy for database observability, develop self-healing solutions to reduce toil and directs the day-to-day activities of Database Administrators and collaborates with application partners that enables operations and drives insights.
Principal database reliability engineer will join the existing team of experienced DBA’s who are responsible for the support of a number of databases, primarily on Mainframe DB2 , Oracle (on-prem and cloud), Exadata appliance and also should be flexible to support other flavors of DBMS like, Snowflake, Aerospike, DynamoDB, Sybase, SQL Server,CockroachDB and Cassandra
The Value You Deliver
Principal engineer will be responsible for Database engineering & administration of FBT Distributed databases systems.
Lead the Database COE team to identify and build out necessary long-term strategy for observability and Stability of distributed database platform.
Define SLI and SLO at database level in line with FI product strategy
The DBA Leader will be responsible for operational excellence of the daily maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, trouble shooting, problem resolution, required for database environment, on premises as well as on cloud (AWS)
Guide off-shore Engineers with delivery, maintenance activities, Production support, replication and performance tuning.
Ability to work in multiple types of databases like Snowflake, SQL Server, Postgres, MariaDB will be added advantage
Participate in regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis and predicting future database resource requirements.
Training, managing and mentoring junior and offshore DBA team members.
Develop database documentation and cookbook standards such as standard operating procedures and knowledge transfer documents, as well as provide clear instruction to DBA’s to provide such documentation
The Skills that are Key to this role
Technical / Behavioral
10+ years’ experience as an Mainframe DB2 and Oracle Database engineer at a senior level
Experienced in large database implementation like Exadata and Snowflake
Hands-on experience on AWS & Azure IaaS and DaaS, Database cloud services
Hands-on experience on monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and Kibana
Hands-on experience on uDeploy, infrastructure as a code tools and Terraform
Hands-on experience on Goldengate replication
Hands-on experience on Cloud pipeline Automation
Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle load utilities
Capable of leading and supporting a team through multiple independent projects simultaneously
Ability to create and maintain positive and professional business relationships
Guide DBA’s through proven diagnostic problem solving and solution development capabilities
Must have in-depth knowledge of DBA best practices
Strong Database & Performance Tuning Knowledge
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Well organized with good time management skills.
Demonstrated interpersonal skills and client focus
Experience in Agile Project Management Methodology would be a plus
Administer databases through full application life cycle, development, testing, and production.
Knowledge and understanding of all aspects of Goldengate replication, database & SQL tuning, memory usage, data access, data manipulation, SQL, and physical storage.
Must exhibit good time management skills, independent decision-making capability; focus on customer service
The Skills that are Good To Have for this role
Knowledge on Azure database services would be a big plus
Knowledge of Institutional brokerage domain would be plus.
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
FBT (Fidelity Brokerage Technology) provides a wide range of brokerage technology solutions for FBT technology and business partners. FBT Tech team provides technology services in the area of development, maintenance, quality assurance and production support of mission critical brokerage applications FBT is part of the Fund and Brokerage Operations & Technology (FBOT) organization and has over 2,700 associates located in Boston, Covington, Denver, Merrimack, New York, New Jersey, Smithfield, Raleigh-Durham, Westlake, as well as India and Ireland. The FBT India team is distributed across Chennai and Bangalore.
The Expertise We’re Looking For
12+ years of IT experience
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
Location : Bangalore
Shift timings: General Shift
Certifications:Category:Information Technology
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
