Database Eng II - AMZ000560

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc. Offered Position: Database Engineer II - AMZ000560 Job Location: Seattle, WA Position

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of Amazon’s global physical security platform.
• Support and administer databases for performance critical, highly available, massively concurrent, distributed systems on a Linux platform.
• Establish and maintain security and integrity controls, and formulate and monitor policies, procedures, and standards relating to data management.
• Establish and calculate optimum database parameters and specify users and user access levels. Migrate performance-critical, high availability systems between managed and un managed database services.
• Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and perform database monitoring using tooling, PL/SQL, and Shell scripting, security monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of system failures.
• Work with third-party vendors and software development teams to deliver highly available, low-latency services. Gather requirements, model, design, develop, test, implement, support, and tune high availability data.
• Participate in design reviews with software teams, and drive feedback on architecture, design, system integration, performance, and scalability issues as it pertains to databases.
• Assist in developing long-term department database technology strategies, and influence cross-company database engineering processes and standards. 100% Telecommuting Permitted.