Sr Database Administrator

Job details

Job Location: Woodland Hills, CA

Job ID: 00108798-1

Come join the Financial Data Services Team in the CTO Organization at Intuit as a Sr. Database Administrator. Our services are critical for Intuit and used by millions of customers using Intuit products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Quicken, and Mint. You'll be surrounded by top-notch engineers who are also outstanding team players. We have adopted agile processes to move fast. We consider our people as the most important asset - we take the growth of our engineers seriously.

Responsibilities

• Drives the creation and support of databases that deliver world-class availability, performance in a cost effective fashion
• Guides development teams in the best use of advanced features and capabilities of database engines
• Use your knowledge of technology and operational best practices to drive the design, development and implementation of operational standards and capabilities for connected services that enable highly available, scalable & reliable customer experiences
• Troubleshoots database related issues, identifies root causes and implements corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence
• Establishes and maintains standard operating procedures
• Serves on an on-call rotation and drives issues to closure when called into action
• Develop, enhance and deploy replication and high availability solutions and assist in evaluating infrastructure improvements for long term growth and cost efficiency
• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures. Create, plan and test scenarios
• Implement and maintain database security policies.
• Perform database tuning and performance monitoring
• Setup and maintain documentation and standards.
• Monitoring - performance, process log, troubleshoot database related issues.
• Solves complex performance issues

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years experience in relational database administration, in a production environment (ideally supporting OLTP databases)
• 5+ years of Oracle Database experience, with RAC
• Proficient with large scale environment (in few terabytes size) and high throughput databases
• Expertise with design of fault tolerant Oracle DB design and large db migration
• Sharding experience is a plus
• MySQL experience is a plus
• NoSQL experience is a plus
• Experience with Unix, Linux
• SQL tuning skills with hands-on experience in large, very busy environments
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills
• Must be detail oriented and have strong problem finding, resolution, and documentation skills.
• Self-motivated, independent worker with strong teamwork skills and leadership capabilities
• Customer focused
• Bachelor degree in computer science (or related field) or equivalent relevant experience

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