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Database Automation Engineer
Hybrid- Columbus, Ohio
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Brooksource is looking for a Database Engineer to join our Banking client in the Columbus area. In this role, you will be part of Enterprise Database Operations team that has accountability for incident management, problem management, database performance optimization, tuning, vulnerability management, patching, audit remediation, operational risk reduction, configuration and drift management, lifecycle management, operational automation (codify/automation BAU activities), change planning and execution among others.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing day-to-day activities, including, but not limited to; incident management, problem management, database performance optimization, tuning, vulnerability management, patching, audit remediation, operational risk reduction, configuration and drift management, lifecycle management, operational automation (codify/automation BAU activities) and change planning
- Excel at teamwork while being a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and extremely reliable Individual Contributor.
- Have an ongoing partnership with multiple teams including offshore Database Operations, Database Engineering and Application (internal IT customers) teams.
- Embrace and implement ideas like “Automate this year’s job away”, “Empower L1/L2 teams to be self-sufficient and independent”, “write robust code to reduce Toil for reducing operational risk and for work/life balance”, “Identify opportunities in every Incident”.
- Excel in interactions with senior engineering team members by asking questions and providing solutions.
Where we expect you to be on day 60:
- Understand top automation priorities and roll out top quality bash code (along with documentation) to reduce toil and manual workload on Oracle database teams.
- Comply and gain deep appreciation of Change Management discipline as it pertains to rolling out Changes in various environments.
- Start working on ability to eventually participate in on-call rotation as the developer is expected to provide 24/7 support in a team rotation basis.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience as an Automation Developer focused on reducing manual work on the teams.
- Excellent UNIX/Linux Shell scripting skills
- Strong keen and interest in learning Oracle
- Experience writing good documentation – detailed design, functional specifications, or technical requirements.
- Strong technical skills and extremely effective communication (both written and verbal)
- Ability to articulate ideas extremely well, back up ideas with data, and clearly demonstrate ROI is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred
- Exposure to at least one additional RDBMS (preferably Oracle)
- Coding experience in Python and/or Infrastructure as Code – Ansible
- Database development skills gained through hands on experience working with relational databases
- Experience working in Agile teams
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