Sr. Manager Database

CarMax • Omaha, NE

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About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Manager for Database Engineering and Operations, who is passionate about delivering technology products and platforms across the organization. Primary responsibility is to partner with the business areas and provide technology solutions and services that help deliver CarMax's strategic mission and plans. This includes development of long and short-term technology solutions that address business goals and deliver improved profitability, efficiency, and an unrivaled customer experience. You will be results-oriented, data-driven, and have a proven record of accomplishments. The Manager will be comfortable guiding teams, setting performance standards, motivating associates to perform quality work, and responsible for identifying high performing talent, gaps in talent, and developing associates to close the gaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on Database administration or engineering experience in an enterprise-level environment.
• 10+ years working in Infrastructure & Operations and expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• 5+ years experience in managing direct reports.
• 5+ years experience building enterprise-grade solutions with Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud technologies.
• Experience in DevOps, version control systems (Git), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, testing frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, building CI/CD pipelines, scripting languages such as Python and shell scripts.
• Knowledge of ITIL framework and experience with Service Management tools such as ServiceNow.

Nice To Haves

• 15+ years of relevant work experience across a broad spectrum of classic and emerging database technologies.
• Mastery over database security, backups, high availability, disaster recovery, resiliency, observability, and performance.
• Subject matter expert in the context of database configuration for everything related to infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating mission critical database systems at scale across public cloud and multiple datacenters.
• Experience working with various database technologies including SQL Server, SAP ASE (Sybase), Oracle, Azure SQLDB, CosmosDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Prior experience with datacenter migration and modernization initiatives.
• Ability to identify and recommend opportunities for automation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of diverse Database technology projects and a distributed team of engineers.
• Partner with stakeholders across various business units and other Technology leaders to influence strategic plans and roadmaps.
• Identify new opportunities for Database solutions by cultivating relationships with leaders across the organization.
• Communicate the vision that clearly articulates the direction for the team.
• Prioritize objectives and provide a cross-functional holistic approach to solution recommendations.
• Deliver on commitments by being results focused and efficiently leveraging team talent.
• Guide teams to design, implement, transform and modernize intelligent, predictable, reliable, scalable, cost-efficient, and easy-to-use platforms/solutions/services.
• Maintain FinOps focus for cloud costs and actively manage contracts and consulting expenditure.
• Drive continuous improvement and efficiencies with consulting partners and vendors.
• Prioritize resolution for major incidents and production issues impacting customers and business.
• Define and measure service level objectives (SLO/SLI) and key performance indicators (KPI).
• Promote strong Data Quality and Data Governance.
• Inspire teams to go for greatness and enrich company culture.
• Serve as an empowering coach to the team.
• Ensure the right skills are being used to solve the right problems.
• Evaluate the talent landscape and create development and selection plans.
• Promote participation and leadership in company-wide DevOps and Innovation initiatives.
• Communicate effectively with associates at various levels.
• Develop meaningful relationships with customers, partners and peers to achieve common goals.
• Drive a broader understanding and usage of Database services across the organization.

Benefits

• 401k
• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• paid_holidays
• tuition_reimbursement
• professional_development
• flexible_scheduling
• employee_discount_programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree