Mid Level Infrastructure Engineer - Database Administrator

USAA•San Antonio, TX

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a dedicated Mid-Level Infrastructure Engineer Database Administrator, you will be responsible for creating, modifying, maintaining and supporting infrastructure and individual and integrated system components and solutions that enable business functions and IT Services. Balance availability, security, efficiency and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled. We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX or Plano, TX. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
4 years of infrastructure experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s) or applicable IT experience such as IT Management, Software Development, Data Engineering, and Agile Product/Release Management.
2 years of experience in creating, modifying, and maintaining infrastructure and individual system components.
Proficient level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, risk management, industry practices and emerging trends.
Knowledge and understanding of designing scalable IT system infrastructures, implementing system changes, or automating service delivery and maintenance tasks.
Hands on experience with cloud technologies and tools.

Nice To Haves

2-4 Years of DB2 LUW experience or 2-4 Years of Postgre SQL.
2-4 Years automation experience with tools like ansible, github and others.
Familiar with Hybrid database platform such as YugabyteDB.
US military experience gained through military service or gained as a military spouse / domestic partner.

Responsibilities

Under limited supervision, designs scalable IT system infrastructure, implements system changes with consistency and autonomy, and automates service delivery and maintenance tasks; builds monitoring and tooling for systems.
Independently, resolves complex technology production issues by troubleshooting IT systems.
Identifies opportunities for improvements and makes recommendations to management.
Analyzes complex outages and identifies opportunities for system improvements.
Understands and consistently exercises engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns.
Understands the customer and identifies solutions and ideas for the customer with some assistance.
Evaluates potential Technology solutions with some oversight.
Mentors' junior engineers and may being mentoring peer engineer.
Develop software defined infrastructure in code in CI/CD Pipelines.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.