Title:  Lead, Systems Engineer (DevOPS)

Job Title: Lead, Systems Engineering – DevOPS

Job Code: 30622

Job Location: Greenville, Texas

Schedule: 9/80; Every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Database DevOps System Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing DevOps practices for database management systems. This role involves close collaboration with software engineering, operations, and data management teams to ensure seamless deployment, scaling, and monitoring of our database infrastructure. You will bring a problem-solving mindset and a collaborative spirit to improve and streamline our processes.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain database infrastructure using DevOps principles.
• Automate database deployment, scaling, and management processes.
• Implement monitoring and alerting tools to ensure database performance and availability.
• Collaborate with software development teams to support CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues in a timely manner.
• Ensure security and compliance standards are met for database systems.
• Continually improve processes and tools to increase efficiency and reliability of database operations.
• Manage backup, recovery, and data archival processes.
• Support and participate in all phases of the software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, and test.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code using software design principles.
• Respond to customer inquiries providing troubleshooting and analysis of complex problems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 9 years of prior programming experience or Graduate Degree with 7 years of prior programming experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior programming experience. 
• Proven experience with Linux Administration and Shell scripting, Python, and PowerShell.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Ansible Jenkin management, Terraform, Groovy, YAML, JSON.
• Proven experience with Gitlab management.
• Proven experience and Strong knowledge of database management systems such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Hand-on experience with Virtual machine and hypervisor management including headless server (PXE boot).
• Experience with networking and storage management in Linux environment.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance 
• Must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Certification in cloud platforms or database management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Oracle, AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, or Puppet is added advantage.