Comcast - Norristown, PA
posted 3 months ago
As the Senior Database Administrator at FreeWheel, a Comcast company, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our database systems. Your primary responsibilities will include managing database availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning for the FreeWheel platforms. You will engage in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, as well as debugging and optimizing existing code. Automation of routine tasks will also be a key focus of your role. You will be part of a diverse team that combines software and technology infrastructure expertise, providing subject matter database knowledge and resolving complex database layer issues. Collaboration with engineering, vendors, and client services will be essential to deliver successful database technical solutions. You will work with limited supervision, independently determining approaches for non-routine solutions while adhering to operational practices. Your core responsibilities will include implementing technical solutions to enhance the reliability, quality, and efficiency of the FreeWheel platforms' database layer. You will review all database data, schema changes, and application changes requiring database access, ensuring safe execution of all database changes according to release schedules. Additionally, you will optimize database parameters for improved performance and stability, enhance database architecture, enforce security measures, and design monitoring and alert systems. You will also be responsible for fulfilling on-call duties to meet service level agreements and developing automation tools to boost operational efficiency. Training and coaching of peers and junior team members will be part of your responsibilities as well.