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Introduction

This role is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining SQL and NoSQL-based infrastructures in support of high-volume, complex data transactions for specific services or groups of services. The position will be part of the SRE Data team and will primarily work with R&D, SRE  and Data analysts. The work includes designing, building and deploying high availability, robust, resilient and supportable database solutions to support large volumes of data transactions. With a focus on the infrastructure and operational elements of designing and deploying a database solution, the SRE Data Engineer must ensure the databases are highly available, have sufficient capacity in place and are fully resilient across multiple data centres and cloud architectures.

Your role and responsibilities


  • Manage MYSQL and NoSQL databases in Development/QA/Production environments including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, replication, upgrades, schema changes, etc.
  • Perform database health monitoring and diagnostics.
  • Integrate monitoring, auditing, and alert systems for databases with existing monitoring infrastructure
  • Design, implement, maintain and automate the appropriate backup and recovery architecture as required
  • Occasional off-shift availability to resolve Production issues 
  • Work closely with other members of the SRE and R&D teams
  • Responsible for system performance and reliability
  • Maintains up-to-date knowledge of database administration and applies these developments to other major projects and initiatives
  • Ensure proactive engagement in the Incident Management process, working with Operational teams to minimize the impact of database outages
  • Presents or makes recommendations on best practices regarding data management, data architecture, and data design
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science preferred)
  • 3+ year’s experience as an SRE Data Engineer on the following databases
    • Cassandra 
    • MySQL
    • Elasticsearch or OpenSearch or Couchbase
    • Redshift
  • Experience with AWS Cloud environment 
  • 3+ years Experience in Python 
  • Experience in configuration management and CI\CD systems like Jenkins and Terraform 
  • Experience working in production environments requiring 99.99% availability
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience in deploying, administrating, tuning, monitoring, and maintaining database technologies
  • Solid experience in database tuning, design, security, backup, recovery, and archival concepts and procedures
  • Experience with monitoring systems 
  • Ability to write ETL, using Python or other languages 
  • Excellent communication skills include effectively communicating with technical, and non-technical employees and vendors
  • Strong problem-solving, testing, and network troubleshooting skills

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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