Database Engineer/Administrator at Eleven Recruiting (Los Angeles, CA)

Job Description

Our client is looking for a Database Developer who will build and maintain database systems that support real-time trading applications alongside backend and frontend engineers and system admins.

They are looking for a strong data management professional who will provide technical focus in building and maintaining critical data management systems.

Responsibilities

• Originate innovative solutions to complex technical problems
• Create technically superior designs that meet requirements while accommodating future needs without sacrificing ease of implementation
• Create designs balanced in pragmatism and elegance
• Show commitment to the seriousness of your work, and discretion when dealing with problems
• Develop and maintain infrastructure the security strategy
• Work alongside the software engineering team to improve the quality of the database systems and their code & systems
• Act as lead for complex problem resolution
• Coach and mentor other team members
• Deliver quality project support and consultation to others
• Identify and create effective data management standards and procedures
• Ensure that system design complies with policies, standards, and principals
• Identify and recommend solutions for opportunities for system improvement through internal processes, procedures, and new technologies
• Highly responsive engagement for 24 x 7 support during and outside of common work schedules
• Fulfill ad hoc query and report requests from other departments

• Effectively communicate with supervisor

Requirements and Qualifications

• Six years of experience in RDBMS physical and logical design, and development in MySQL and SQL Server
• Highly responsive communication when working remotely
• Ability to become the expert on a specific domain of technology and provide technical consultation to others
• Maintain top quality technical skills in a broad range of DBMSs, technology, and techniques
• Vast knowledge of MySQL and SQL Server subsystems and internals
• Deep experience in developing high volume, scalable, data-intensive systems
• Highly skilled in performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Entrenched skill in designing and developing highly optimized database code
• Solid understanding of DBMS hardware, including RAM, CPU, Permanent Storage, I/O, and other capacity related resources
• Ability to create or review architecture and specification documents ensuring database security, integrity, and performance
• Possess the ability to learn how applications work by analyzing schema, querying data, and reviewing SQL
• Excellent visual, written, and verbal communications with the ability to intuitively put ideas into tangible form
• Demonstrated ability in moving a software product through the full development lifecycle
• Extensive experience with AWS and RDS
• Working knowledge in building Business Intelligence services
• Knowledge of designing, building, and maintaining database clusters, business continuity, and recovery architecture and processes
• Passion for innovation and for working in early stage startups

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