Principal Database Engineer

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities? Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day. Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

• Contribute to Cloud strategy discussions and decisions on overall Cloud design and best approach for implementing Cloud Data solutions.
• Define best practices and procedures to migrate applications from on-premises to public cloud
• Develop standards and procedures for all aspects of Data Platforms in the Cloud.
• Identify system enhancements and automation opportunities for installing/maintaining Data Platforms
• Support and manage Distributed Database Technologies related to Aurora PGS.
• Adhere to best practices on Incident, Problem and Change management
• Lead projects independently with minimal guidance.
• Responsible for managing and supporting Aurora PostgreSQL database platforms working closely with AWS, application support teams, technical support team and team members
• Installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining database instances both on premises and on AWS EC2 cloud
• Recommending and implementing database security policies
• Recommending and implementing database backup, recovery, and redundancy strategies
• Implementing automated procedures to proactively handle issues and alerts.
• Working independently to perform database performance analysis, capacity planning, system sizing and ongoing maintenance

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Extensive experience with Automation using Terraform
• Strong knowledge of operating systems (Unix / Linux)
• Hands on experience with Shell and Python scripting (added advantage) to automate tasks enabling self-healing capabilities.
• Strong Knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture
• Hands-on experience with AWS Services, e.g., Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB.
• Extensive coding experience (Java; Python; Bash; NodeJS; (C/C - a plus)
• Able to handle tasks and projects independently with minimum guidance and directions
• Should be able to research, design, document and implement new Database related services independently
• Strong experience in Backup and recovery processes
• Demonstrated ability to work in a complex environment to determine business and customer needs and provide the best solution needed