Staff Software Engineer - Database

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Position Description

Cloudbees, the leader in CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Delivery) and the company behind Jenkins, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer. 

CloudBees CD/RO and DevOps Insights are products which span technologies ranging from distributed systems, clustering, databases, multi-thread processing, complex scheduling and much more.

Cloudbees, the leader in Continuous Delivery and the company behind Jenkins, is seeking a Java Microservices Engineer with experience in Microservices, performance engineering, databases and Kubernetes to join our industry leading Cloudbees Software Delivery Automation team.

This person will be responsible for interfacing with Product managers, UX designers, Backend engineers to design as well as implement API using Java/Groovy, They will also be required to write unit tests to automate the verification of their code. They are also expected to provide guidance to other team members via architecture, design and code reviews.

The Cloudbees CD team places high value on software quality. It is expected that the person works with Quality Engineers within the team to ensure that the software is tested end to end. The ideal candidate would be someone who is interested in learning varied technologies and be a quick learner.    

Desired Skills and Experience

Essential Skills

• Minimum 6 Years proven working experience as a Oracle/Postgres database engineer/DBA
• Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications
• Familiarity with database design, documentation and coding
• Previous experience with DBA case tools (frontend/backend) and third party tools
• Familiarity with programming languages API
• Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically
• Excellent knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity and SQL
• Very thorough and clear understanding of any one Oracle/Postgress/SQL Server Database Architectures
• Extensive knowledge and solid troubleshooting skills in the following areas

RAC, ASM, Performance tuning, Data Guard Golden Gate etc.

• Experience in troubleshooting various installation and patching issues
• Expert level skills database migrations, patching and upgrade
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical issues.
• Appetite to learn new technologies and constantly improve technical skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science is highly preferred

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of Java, Spring, Hibernate  
• Switched career from developer to DBA role adds advantage 
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines 
• Prior experience in cloud technologies 

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.
• Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
• Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
• Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.
• Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.
• Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
• Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
• Build database systems of high availability and quality depending on each end user’s specialised role
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data
• Minimise database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses
• Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users
• Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures and standards
• Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy and integrity
• Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required

What You’ll Get

• Highly competitive benefits and vacation package
• Ability to work for one of the fastest growing companies with some of the most talented people in the industry
• Team outings
• Fun, Hardworking, and Casual Environment
• Endless Growth Opportunities

At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers.  A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers.  Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.

In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage.  CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers.  CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.

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