Job Description:
The Role
The Fidelity Institutional Technology, Database Center of Excellence (COE), requires a highly competent and highly motivated Senior Database Administrator with strong technical skills to support challenging mission critical database platforms. This position would provide an excellent opportunity to work on leading database technologies like Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL, Cockroach, Snowflake etc. It is a great place to experience & learn end to end DBA service capabilities!
This role requires a service-oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned. Provides enormous opportunity to learn cutting edge technologies like machine learning!
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
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- 8+ years of experience in Database technologies with very proven understanding of end-to-end database tech-stack including Exadata and provide technical leadership for strategic projects.
- 3+ years of Cloud experience
The Skills You Bring
- 8+ experience in providing Database design, solutioning and providing database engineering support to microservices/Data as a service API development team using SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Python and NodeJS.
- Experience with cloud databases platforms (AWS/Azure/Oracle OCI certification is helpful), on both Linux and Windows environments.
- Experience in Container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (IAM, ARM, Terraform, Chef)
- Experience in modern observability tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana,etc)
- Experience on CI/CD process, tools, testing frameworks and practices (GitHub, Jenkins, Udeploy and Jmeter)
- 3+ experience in Oracle Database Administration / Performance Engineering / Resiliency Engineering and Replication Engineering across multiple platforms - Linux and Engineered systems.
- 1+ experience in DB performance for other RDBMS/NOsql/Distributed database platforms (Postgres, Snowflake, Cassandra, MS SQL server, Cockroach etc) across multiple platforms - Linux and Engineered systems.
- Designing and implementing highly resilient and performing Oracle database platforms, using distributed database technologies.
- Domain specialist in Oracle internals, Optimizer, Statistics management, Partition management, Physical implementation & Workload management for highly scalable and resilient database platforms.
- Strong Linux shell scripting experience preferred with a good understanding of Linux Performance
- A good understanding of Oracle RAC related performance challenges
- Ability to work well in a team environment, as well as maintaining a positive attitude are a must
- Ability to develop and drive database performance standards and initiatives. AWS cloud experience desired.
The Value You Deliver
- Designing and implementing highly resilient and performing cloud database platforms, using distributed database technologies.
- Perform applications database administration (Oracle/Postgres/Cockroach) services including SQL code review, performance analysis, query tuning, database application design, physical data modeling, development support & Engineering.
- Proactively monitor databases servers and respond to any alerts.
- Provide database development support in all phases of SDLC and agile experience is preferred including logical and physical data model review, SQL performance, Data injection etc.
- Participate in 24X7 on call rotation schedule for various production support, database maintenance, housekeeping and installs.
- Interface with enterprise teams for Systems Administrators, Cyber Security and Capacity Planning groups as and when situation demands.
- Ability to quickly diagnose the problem areas and come up with solutions and/or workarounds.
- Should have strong time management skills with willingness and ability to handle multiple projects/initiatives at the same time.
- Self-motivated with strong team, interpersonal and communication skills!
- Establish database standards for operations, upgrades, migrations and onboarding new applications and/or clients.
- Write clear, concise, well organized technical documentation to maintain standards and procedures.
The Team
The Fidelity Institutional Technology, Database Center of Excellence (COE), provides business facing database solutions, encompassing the application/business aspects of databases, including database design, solution design, database engineering, application-data-database integration, data replication, performance consulting, deployment, and support, using world-class methodologies & technologies. This team provides end to end DBA services for distributed database technologies like Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL, Snowflake, SQL server, Cockroach, Neo4j, MariaDB etc
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.
Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.