Distributed Database Specialist (Data Engineer)

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge and experience designing, maintaining, and optimizing Oracle, DynamoDB, Redis, and SQL Server databases.

• Experience with database replication technologies for high availability and disaster recovery.

• Familiarity with AWS Services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, DMS etc.)

• Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems

• Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.

• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)

• Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability

• Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage.

• Awareness of emerging technologies and approaches in IT

• Proficiency in Python and Groovy for automation and scripting.

• Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine is a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)

• Excellent communication skills.

• Experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database flavors (e.g. Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL)

• On-call for production databases - daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer and dev support

• Exposure to cloud environments and architectures

• Experienced in various Clustering and Sharding architectures

• Experience with data ingestion techniques and pipelines to process the importing, transferring, loading, and processing data for later use or storage in a database.

• Experience with CDC data ingestion for real-time updates, log-based mechanism, streaming, or any other related technique would be a plus

• Experience with DBT scripts is must

• Snowflake experience or knowledge is a plus

Experience Levels Qualifications:

• BE in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related field

• 8+ years overall professional Experience.

• Strong understanding of the DB transaction internals.

• Strong understanding of SQL and query performance tuning.

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