Amazon Sr Database Engineer RDS DB2 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

185798898

Candidates must have:
· Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining relational databases preferably IBM Db2
· Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, etc.)
· Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.
· Storage engineering experience, including NAS, SAN, SSD, multi-pathing and caching.
· Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems
· Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability
· Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage.
· Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership.
· Awareness of emerging technologies and approaches in IT
· Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
· Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl).
· Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)
· Proven track record of automating tasks
· Excellent communication skills.
· Consulting experience is a plusKey job responsibilitiesSolve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.Diverse Experiences
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- 6+ years of experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database flavors
- IBM Db2 experience is must.

- Familiarity with at least one compiled language (Java, C, C++ )