Senior Database Administrator
Job Responsibilities:
- Leads the architecture, engineering, implementation, and operations of all data systems to support scalability, availability, and performance.
- Collaborate with engineering teams through the entire software development lifecycle to solve complex problems while maintaining database standards and best practices.
- Responsible for ensuring application/database stability and functionality, including all environments: development, test, and production
- Monitor, investigate, and troubleshoot production database issues, coordinate incident recovery, and communicate to respective support teams and engineering leaders.
- Help maintain all data stores on AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Work with our strategic reporting and data analysis teams to help build/refresh data warehouse.
- Off-hours support is required as needed.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Administrator/Engineer
- Experience managing databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform (EC2 & RDS)
- Experience in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or newer
- Experience with Microsoft SQL AlwaysOn HA and SAN environments
- Experience with Redshift and PostgreSQL
- Designing and implementing disaster recovery solutions, including geo-replicated scenarios
- Strong TSQL, Powershell, and Python skills
- Strong experience with query performance improvements
- Strong knowledge of relational design best practices
- Strong knowledge of data warehouse design (star schema, snowflake etc)
- Good written and verbal communication skills to interact with engineers and managers alike
- Continuous deployment experience
Preferred Skills:
- Database agnostic approach. Willing to work with new and emerging technologies
- Working knowledge of AWS high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)
- High level experience in Data Science and data science tooling
- Experience in the development and administration of MongoDB
- Experience in the development and administration of Redis
- Experience in the development and administration of Solr
- Experience with operating systems like UNIX, LINUX, CentOS
- Exposure to working inside an Agile development organization
Location: Austin, TX 78701, remote or hybrid optional team environment
*Unfortunately we are unable to employ remote employees in the following locations: New York City, Massachusetts,
Montana, Hawaii, Alaska, California, and anywhere outside of the U.S.
Salary: $140-155k base salary ($160-175k total comp including 401k matching, paid insurance, bonus, etc.)
*Unfortunately we are unable to transfer or sponsor visas.
*No agencies or independent contractors please
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What We Do
uShip.com is the world’s largest and most trusted transportation marketplace primarily serving the freight, household goods and vehicle shipping markets. Consumers and businesses can compare and book upfront quotes, name their own price or receive auction style bids from over 225,000 customer-reviewed Transportation Service Providers, ranging from independent owner-operators to the largest freight carriers and brokers.
Launched in 2004, Austin-based uShip operates globally with localized sites in the U.S., Canada, UK, Germany, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Austria, the European Union, Central and South America
