Database Engineer III , AWS Database Migration Services

Amazon - Boston, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Boston, MA

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About the position

The Database Engineer III position at AWS Database Migration Services involves innovating and engineering solutions in database technology, automating databases at scale, and collaborating with development teams to enhance database tools and processes. The role emphasizes customer advocacy, problem-solving for complex migration and replication challenges, and leveraging AWS services to improve data management and migration for clients.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and engineer solutions in the area of database technology.
• Apply engineering experience to automate databases at scale.
• Engage in ongoing database engineering processes, partnering with development groups.
• Provide deep subject matter expertise input as stakeholders to design reviews.
• Advocate for resolving customer issues and act as the 'Voice of the Customer'.
• Work with developers to refine and design migration and replication tools used by customers.
• Test tools to improve quality, performance, and scalability.
• Help customers leverage tools for moving data into and around the AWS ecosystem.
• Work with customers to solve complex migration and replication problems.
• Gather feedback to drive improvements in the quality and functionality of tools.
• Work with AWS Services: DMS, SCT, RDS, Aurora, Redshift, S3, Kinesis, EC2, MSK.

Requirements

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered, or as an Operations Research Analyst, Database Developer, or a related occupation.
• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field and six years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience.
• One year of experience in designing and maintaining relational databases including Oracle, MySQL, Postgres or SQL Server.
• Experience in systems engineering including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.
• Building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems.
• Knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, or recovery paths).
• Experience with at least one scripting language: shell, Python, or Perl.
• Coding in procedural language for at least one database: PL/SQL, PL-SQL, or T-SQL.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of AWS database migration software and technologies (DMS, SCT).
• Experience with software development methodologies and programming languages such as Java or C#.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally.
• Deep knowledge of either Postgres, MongoDB or DB2.
• Understanding of the Enterprise services space, particularly database and analytics.
• Experience influencing product development and working with development teams.
• Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion.
• Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to details, proactive self-starter.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
• Ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
• Experience in consulting and resolving database issues to minimize business impact.
• Experience migrating databases from on-prem to cloud or running in a hybrid cloud environment.