Pioneer in the FinTech space. Bank has grown from $40B in assets to $116B in assets in 3 years during COVID.

Huge opportunity for upward mobility.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Database Management

Tempe, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin

The Company is the most sought-after financial partner in the global innovation economy. We bring together entrepreneurs, investors, ventures capitalists, and private equity firms to move their bold ideas forward, fast. Our clients define what comes next.

Our Patch Management and Governance team requires a highly-experienced Infrastructure Engineer responsible for driving engineering, automation and support for security and application patching in the Technology area.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Patch Management, you will support database patching and vulnerability remediation in both production and pre-production environments, reporting to the Director for Patch Management and Governance. The role requires work to be done on keeping all databases patched and keep up the required compliance level.

An ideal candidate will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Database and Middleware Engineering delivering solutions leveraging the industry best practices (Design, Availability, Compliance, Back-ups, and Recovery) and providing operational support for database infrastructure.

Our Technology Stack

Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019

RHEL 6/7 and 8, AIX

Oracle WebLogic 10, 12c and 14c

Oracle DBMS 12c/18c/19c

Postgres SQL12

MS SQL Server 2012/2014/2016/2019

Oracle Grid/RAC, ASM, Oracle CIS Security Standards, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for patch management

RMAN for data backup/ recovery

Oracle Active Data Guard, Oracle Golden Gate, Attunity or related data replication products

UNIX and Linux shell scripting skills

Vulnerability management tools Nexpose

Primary Responsibilities:

PATCH COMPLIANCE

• Assess software patches and create recommended patch list with logical explanation in terms of compliance.
• Develop and optimize pre- and post- patching process to ensure proper implementation without any outages.
• Score each patch based on risks & opportunity to prioritize. Identify which patches are more valuable to the organization than others.
• Act as an escalation point for patch execution / partner team mentoring them and resolving complex scenarios and technical issues
• Ensures overall service levels for infrastructure uptimes through patch management standards, firmware upgrades and vendor based advisory
• Analyzes trend data to identify potential patch related issues on various images and assists teams in troubleshooting to implement any resolutions/improvements needed for proactive resolution
• Develops automation scripts and programs to streamline manual patch operations and improve mean time to deliver and first-time right metrics.
• Assist in implementation during patch maintenance windows and assists in documenting completion of the change.
• Measures and recommends improvement for patching service levels and success rates
• Maintains ticket queues for new patching or change requests
• Supports the determination of patches needed as well as implementation of corrective actions by doing thorough due diligence
• Perform Patch management tasks include maintaining current knowledge of available patches, deciding what patches are appropriate for systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly, testing systems after installation, and documenting all associated procedures.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT - Must be skilled in vulnerability assessment, risk rating, threat correlation, asset-based remediation planning, and reporting

PATCH AUTOMATION Design, build, test and deploy scripting and automation to reduce the effort required to deploy security patches and support. Align solutions with the existing technology stack to provide seamless delivery

OPERATING SYSTEMS Good knowledge of OS administration RHEL, Windows Server and hands on experience with UNIX and Linux shell scripting skills

TEAM PLAYER Act as a team player supporting peers, department management and business unit leadership to fulfill operational service levels, department initiatives and project deliverables. Believe in and adopt a 70% agreement, 100% commitment attitude

DOCUMENTATION Build high quality roadmaps, strategies, standards, and procedures to publicize the work of the department and develop the knowledge of others.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Organize continuous improvement efforts by understanding staff insights and concerns and creating a pipeline of change. Maintains a keen eye on opportunities to improve patch effectiveness, efficiency, compliancy, or cost savings. Drive resolutions to production.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT Learn and follow the change management process. Independently test and implement changes in the environment while informing others.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT Act as an expert support resource for multiple Database / Middleware technology stack components. Assist and mentor system administrators and analysts to foster personal growth and accountability

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent) with minimum 8 years of database Engineering and Administration
• Possess knowledge of OS administration RHEL, Windows Server with hands on experience with UNIX and Linux shell scripting skills
• Implemented and supported mission critical systems providing Engineering and Operational support
• Perform SQL queries, manages Oracle database users, determines patch set levels, and maintain version compliance for Database and WebLogic servers
• Perform Oracle database patching, WebLogic application server patching for audit compliance
• Assess vulnerabilities in database and middleware Pre-Production and Production environments, test and implement solutions to remediate vulnerabilities
• Extensive experience applying Oracle maintenance PSUs and CPUs patches
• Experience with data replication technologies like Oracle`s Golden Gate, IBM`s IIDR and Active Data Guard
• Experience working with MS SQL Server 2012 through 2019
• Solid understanding of physical and logical database design
• Understanding of middleware technologies as it relates to database connectivity
• Deep understanding of networking and storage technologies related to databases
• Solid troubleshooting and incident management skills
• Experience with Attunity Replicate is a plus
• Work with the appropriate teams (Security Compliance, Internal and External Auditors) to review security policies, participate in audits, and implement the appropriate remediation measures
• Practice and deliver with Industry best practices for all database and middleware infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills
• Contribute to, and update, systems documentation as required
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to business and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated self-motivated work ethic and lifelong learner.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and motivate others

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent) with minimum 8 years of database Engineering and Administration
• Possess knowledge of OS administration RHEL, Windows Server with hands on experience with UNIX and Linux shell scripting skills
• Implemented and supported mission critical systems providing Engineering and Operational support
• Perform SQL queries, manages Oracle database users, determines patch set levels, and maintain version compliance for Database and WebLogic servers
• Perform Oracle database patching, WebLogic application server patching for audit compliance
• Assess vulnerabilities in database and middleware Pre-Production and Production environments, test and implement solutions to remediate vulnerabilities
• Extensive experience applying Oracle maintenance PSUs and CPUs patches
• Experience with data replication technologies like Oracle`s Golden Gate, IBM`s IIDR and Active Data Guard
• Experience working with MS SQL Server 2012 through 2019
• Solid understanding of physical and logical database design
• Understanding of middleware technologies as it relates to database connectivity
• Deep understanding of networking and storage technologies related to databases
• Solid troubleshooting and incident management skills
• Experience with Attunity Replicate is a plus
• Work with the appropriate teams (Security Compliance, Internal and External Auditors) to review security policies, participate in audits, and implement the appropriate remediation measures
• Practice and deliver with Industry best practices for all database and middleware infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills
• Contribute to, and update, systems documentation as required
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to business and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated self-motivated work ethic and lifelong learner.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and motivate others

Education:
University - Bachelor`s Degree/3-4 Year Degree