Lead Infrastructure Engineer
generalmills
Job Description
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Technical leadership for migrating existing Microsoft SQL Server and NoSQL Databases to Public Cloud.
- Migrating databases to GCP or any public cloud
- Development and ownership of migration processes, documentation, and tooling
- Expertly administer and manage mission-critical, complex, and high-volume Database Platforms in a 24/7 environment
- SQL Server administration, implementing best practices and resolving complex performance issues
- Setting up PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL DBs (MongoDB) its maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Adhere to cloud security standards or best practices to avoid security breaches and reduce system vulnerability.
- Scripting and Automation
- Implementation and support of AlwaysOn and Failover Clustering.
- Database support lifecycle activities.
- Collaborate cross function to resolve tickets.
- Collaborate with application stakeholders.
- Have exposure of working within Agile framework.
- Administer, troubleshoot, and resolve failures and critical alerts.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years of hands-on experience with leading design, refactoring, or migration of databases in cloud Infrastructures and services for at least one of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google GCP (preferred)
- Experience maintaining and administering with CI/CD tools such as Ansible, Puppet, GitHub and Artifactory in a cloud environment and developing/writing scripts using advanced DevOps languages such as Python, PowerShell is a plus.
- Experience working with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, or equivalent is a plus.
- Experience with concepts, processes & tools required for cloud adoption including cloud security, governance, and integration.
- Experience with SQL Server AlwaysOn and Windows clustering.
- Experience with agile techniques and methods.
- Familiarity with user expectations for cloud Databases (to be able to design user centric engineering services – e.g., provisioning self-service workflow)
- Working knowledge on DevOps, Agile development processes, exploration and POCs
- Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries.
Expert Level
- Data Platform (MS SQL) administration
- lwaysOn
- Failover Clustering
- PowerShell