Database Administrator - Amazon Web Services

How would you like to work in the clouds? Come join Amazon Web Services and you can take part in building the tools that will leverage the cloud into the next generation. You will work directly with our software and system engineers to create world-class web services.  You will be involved in the design, implementation, enhancement, scaling, and maintenance of highly available Oracle-based distributed databases. The successful applicant is an Oracle expert who is deeply passionate about databases, has a proven ability to learn new skills and concepts rapidly, and is able to work independently and self-motivated.  Candidates need to have excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to be calm and effective in high-pressure situations.

Okay, I’m interested what else do you do?

• Your job is to keep millions of customers worldwide happy simultaneously.
• Impossible? We do it as a matter of course every minute of every day.
• You’re supporting the tools that every single Amazonian depends on every day.

Sounds great, what are the qualifications?

• The position requires at substantial DBA experience in similar environments.
• Identify, evaluate and evangelize new database and data management technologies.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science strongly preferred.
• The ideal candidate will have experience with large-scale, highly available distributed Oracle systems.
• Innovative and unconventional approaches to systems architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability and scalability
• Work on multiple development projects spanning many teams.
• Ownership of upkeep and operational stability of Oracle instances.
• Strong Oracle RDBMS experience is required.
• Knowledge of additional DBMS technologies, supporting infrastructure components, including operating systems, hardware/storage configurations and networks is preferred.
• Excellent LINUX skills and a grasp of fundamental computing concepts such as system memory management and program debugging is plus.
  

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