Cloud Database Engineer - Charlotte
Cloud Database Engineer - Hybrid (North Carolina)
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About the job
The CI Cloud Engineering Team is looking for a Cloud Database Engineer to help build, maintain, and evangelize our cloud based data storage solutions. Our team is the tip of the spear for cloud technologies within SAS Customer Intelligence. We answer the question of, “We have code, what do we do with it?”. Our team owns the cloud infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD frameworks, security solutions, and Kubernetes Environments for the Customer Intelligence division.
As a Cloud Database Engineer, you will:
- Design and develop high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines while adhering to R&D best practices and processes
- Work with the R&D team to design highly scalable and reliable database services in the cloud
- Influence, develop, and communicate database best practices for microservices to an R&D division
- Participate in project scoping and scheduling; tracks progress of individual tasks and alerts stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing completion of task
- Serve as a technical expert of cloud database related technologies
- Understand and recommend steps to reduce waste within our cloud environments
- Analyze production workloads to identify problems and bottlenecks within the system
- Work as part of a larger team to complete large projects
- Embed with software development teams to fix and improve their use of cloud based database technologies
- Sphere of influence: Within the Cloud Engineering team with interaction with the CI360 division
- Five (5) years of experience with cloud based database technologies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
- Demonstrated experience in one or more Object Oriented Programming Languages. (I.e. Python or GoLang)
- Advanced proficiency in SQL
- Demonstrated experience of Cloud Computing. (e.g. AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Demonstrated experience with AWS specific Database services a Plus (e.g. DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS)
- Deep understanding of managing large-scale databases in cloud environments (e.g. PostgreSQL and MySQL)
- Knowledgeable in Infrastructure as Code and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
- Experienced in using Git for trunk-based development, with the ability to articulate best practices.
- You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
- Basic understanding of Agile methodologies, specifically the Kanban framework
- Ability to think analytically and effectively communicate issues and solutions
- Ability to work within a team
World-Class Benefits
Highlights include...- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include...
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
Diverse and Inclusive
At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.
Additional Information:
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