Principal DB2 DBA - AWS
Fidelity Investments, Westlake, TX, United States
Job Description:
Principal DB2 DBA - AWS
The Role
Fidelity is seeking a seasoned database administrator/ engineer primarily with expertise in DB2 on Linux platform to join our team. In this role you will:
- Support DB2 on Linux and utilize your strong understanding of RDBMS and NOSQL database concepts to support our critical Fraud data platform.
- Work closely with Application team to support their modernization efforts by recommending appropriate data solutions.
- Support other platforms to include any flavor of PostgreSQL, NewSQL databases such as YugaByte, in-memory database solutions such as Redis/AeroSpike and NoSQL and databases such as Mongo, Cassandra.
- Play a critical role in building the next generation fraud data platform by bringing in your deep database expertise and integrating those skills with the rest of the team.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Minimum of 10 years progressive working experience supporting enterprise database platforms such as DB2 LUW, PostgreSQL, MongDB, YugaByte, Aerospike etc.
- Solid understanding of query performance and optimization techniques for various database platforms (SQL and NoSQL).
- Experience working on Linux operations system and OS tuning knowledge around database workloads.
- Experience working with Federation Services / Federated systems.
- Moderate to advanced shell, Perl or Python scripting skills to automate or build utilities interacting with databases.
- Understanding and work experience with data replication tools such as MQ Replication, IBM CDC or Attunity is required.
- Sound knowledge of backup, recovery and bulk load utilities to assist developers with batch process design.
- Working experience with some flavor of PostgreSQL engine.
- Expertise in real time performance monitoring tools such as db2top, event monitors, WLM, Linux top, vmstat, iostat and netstat etc.
- Automation skills around Terraform, Ansible to ease traditional database activities such as configuration management and monitoring.
- Expertise supporting both on-prem and cloud database platforms (preferably AWS).
- Good understanding of Agile sprints and Service-Now tool for change, incident management.
- Analytical skills to troubleshoot complex database problems and communication skills to keep stakeholders appraised.
- Proactive capacity planning, not just storage but from CPU, memory standpoint.
- Experience with on-call protocols such as Incident triaging, escalation etc.
The Team
Our Center of Excellent is responsible for Enterprise Snowflake Operations, Database Operations & Platform Engineering, Data Masking DevSecOps & Data Ingestion Platform, Enterprise Datalake Operations, and Enterprise Data Tool Operations. We support a wide range of latest and greatest tools and technologies including Snowflake, Yugabyte, Aerospike, Oracle, DB2, Mongo, Postgres, SQL Server, NiFi, Collibra, Alation, Middleware, AWS, Azure etc.
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.
