Job Description:
Principal DB2 DBA - AWSThe Role
Fidelity is seeking a seasoned database administrator/ engineer primarily with expertise in DB2 on Linux platform to join our team. In this role you will:
- Support DB2 on Linux and utilize your strong understanding of RDBMS and NOSQL database concepts to support our critical Fraud data platform.
- Work closely with Application team to support their modernization efforts by recommending appropriate data solutions.
- Support other platforms to include any flavor of PostgreSQL, NewSQL databases such as YugaByte, in-memory database solutions such as Redis/AeroSpike and NoSQL and databases such as Mongo, Cassandra.
- Play a critical role in building the next generation fraud data platform by bringing in your deep database expertise and integrating those skills with the rest of the team.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Minimum of 10 years progressive working experience supporting enterprise database platforms such as DB2 LUW, PostgreSQL, MongDB, YugaByte, Aerospike etc.
- Solid understanding of query performance and optimization techniques for various database platforms (SQL and NoSQL).
- Experience working on Linux operations system and OS tuning knowledge around database workloads.
- Experience working with Federation Services / Federated systems.
- Moderate to advanced shell, Perl or Python scripting skills to automate or build utilities interacting with databases.
- Understanding and work experience with data replication tools such as MQ Replication, IBM CDC or Attunity is required.
- Sound knowledge of backup, recovery and bulk load utilities to assist developers with batch process design.
- Working experience with some flavor of PostgreSQL engine.
- Expertise in real time performance monitoring tools such as db2top, event monitors, WLM, Linux top, vmstat, iostat and netstat etc.
- Automation skills around Terraform, Ansible to ease traditional database activities such as configuration management and monitoring.
- Expertise supporting both on-prem and cloud database platforms (preferably AWS).
- Good understanding of Agile sprints and Service-Now tool for change, incident management.
- Analytical skills to troubleshoot complex database problems and communication skills to keep stakeholders appraised.
- Proactive capacity planning, not just storage but from CPU, memory standpoint.
- Experience with on-call protocols such as Incident triaging, escalation etc.
The Team
Our Center of Excellent is responsible for Enterprise Snowflake Operations, Database Operations & Platform Engineering, Data Masking DevSecOps & Data Ingestion Platform, Enterprise Datalake Operations, and Enterprise Data Tool Operations. We support a wide range of latest and greatest tools and technologies including Snowflake, Yugabyte, Aerospike, Oracle, DB2, Mongo, Postgres, SQL Server, NiFi, Collibra, Alation, Middleware, AWS, Azure etc.
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Category:Information Technology
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
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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.