The Senior Database Engineer will lead database design and administration, manage database clusters, support developers, and ensure database performance.
IDT is looking for a rock star Database Engineer to join our database services team. If you are highly motivated, ambitious, ready to learn and make a direct impact, this is your opportunity!
The individual in this role will perform database analysis, design and administration functions to deliver on strategic projects specific to organizational goals. The ideal candidate would have in-depth experience with Oracle / MongoDB / MySQL / Couchbase / PostgreSQL technologies in an enterprise environment.
To be successful in IDT's dynamic environment, qualified candidates must be self-motivated, work closely with others in a true team environment and be able to define, plan and implement long term goals and tasks in support of IDT's enterprise and technology organization charter. Excellent communication, problem solving, multitasking, troubleshooting skills, logical thinking and attention to detail are required to work in this challenging and dynamic environment.
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science.
- 8-10 years of DBA experience.
- Deep experience with Oracle / MongoDB / MySQL databases.
- Experience with databases hosted on Linux.
- Database architecture and high availability solutions.
- Amazon RDS platform.
- Troubleshooting application issues and database object design.
- Nice to have:
- Prior experience with System / Network administration
- PostgreSQL / CouchBase
It's okay if you are a MongoDB expert and don't have enough exposure to Oracle / MySQL technologies, we welcome deep expertise on the MongoDB platform.
Responsibilities:
- Database administration, which includes:
- Provisioning new MongoDB clusters.
- Working with developers to design collections / indexes and SQL queries.
- Software installation, patches, upgrades.
- Database schema changes, tuning and managing database replication, backup and recovery.
- 24x7 support. The candidate is expected to be a part of DBA on-call rotation schedule.
About us:
IDT is a multinational provider of cloud communications, PoS systems, unified communications, and financial services for businesses and consumers, headquartered in New Jersey. We are listed on the NYSE, employ 1600 people across 20+ countries, and have revenues over $1.5 billion.
At IDT, we understand the challenge of being apart from those who matter most, so we create products that enable people to keep in touch and share resources worldwide.
We are not ”another big IT corporation” – we encourage and support any in-house entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into business action.
It seems like you are interested if you are here, so let’s chat!
Top Skills
Amazon Rds
Couchbase
Linux
MongoDB
MySQL
Oracle
Postgres
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