Introduction to ADVANA
IVERTIX supports many state-of-the-art Data Platforms for its Government and defense clients using cutting edge technologies available today in the cloud. These data platforms enable the organizations to support their mission critical initiatives leveraging advanced data analytics and machine learning capabilities.
Advana is a multi-domain technology platform which offers military and business decision makers, analysts, and users at all levels unprecedented access to authoritative enterprise data and structured analytics in a scalable, reliable, and secure environment. It offers platform-, data analytics-, and data science-as-a-service tools to complete analysis and data exploration and data visualization capabilities. Using one central data platform with right-time data, data tools, and other self-service products, the goal of Advana is to simplify solutions and put the power of analytics in the pocket of every analyst and decision-making authority at the Department of Defense.
The Senior-Level DBA/DRE – Role Description & Requirements
In an increasingly connected world, massive amounts of structured and unstructured data open up endless opportunities. At Advana, our dashboard developers spend their days unlocking secrets held by data sets and exploring new possibilities presented by the IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence advances. They turn complex data sets into valuable information to solve global challenges across private and public sectors — from fraud detection to cancer research to national intelligence — they know, the answers are in the data.
Are you interested in building high-performance, highly scalable and available database systems that support Advana’s current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up? If so, please read ahead! At Advana, we are looking for a Database reliability Engineer to help lead large-scale data store environments. This team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs. If you love to take on internet-scale challenges, then this is the right job for you!
- This engineer will be responsible for automating setup, scaling and maintaining production databases: RDS Instances, Aurora (cluster and serverless) in AWS
- Responsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance
- Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performances
- Provide assessments of data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy
- Triage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence
- Do capacity planning benchmarking on various databases
- Develop, implement and maintain automation tools to manage and monitor diverse database technologies we have
What we’re looking for:
- Someone with a solid background developing solutions for high volume, low latency applications and can operate in a fast paced, highly collaborative environment
- A candidate with distributed computer understanding and experience with SQL, Spark, ETL
- A person who appreciates the opportunity to be independent, creative and challenged
- An individual with a curious mind, passionate about solving problems quickly and bringing innovative ideas to the table
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a DBA / DRE
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS data technologies and solutions, such as Redshift SQL
- Advanced skills and experience with PostgreSQL and associated PostgreSQL technologies
- Experience with databases at TB scale, high throughput and low latency, particularly using “big data” tooling (Hadoop, Spark, RedShift, HDFS)
- Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
- Good software development skills in Python/Go/Shell/Perl, PL/SQL or similar languages for scripting and automation
- Strong Unix Internals experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science, information technologys, or other technical discipline
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willing to upgrade to Polygraph, or Clerable
- Available to be onsite in DMV region a minimum of 2-3 days a week, with flexibility of 4-5 as needed preferred
Additional Qualifications:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Vendor certifications corresponding to the data products for which experience is claimed
- Postgraduate work, or advanced degree, in a data management discipline
- Familiarity with Active Directory constructs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, proven collaboration skills.
- Docker/Kubernetes experience
- Willingness to function on bleeding edge of commercial constructs in a secure and restricted environment
- Not looking for: Oracle DBA experience, MySQL expereince