Database Engineer, VP at State Street in Sacramento, California

Job Description:

 As part of State Street’s continued investment in Resiliency, we are looking for an individual with an analytical mind and a detailed understanding of IT Lifecycle. This team member, along with others, will work within the IT Infrastructure organization to help deliver organizational Lifecycle goals.

As a member of the Lifecycle team your emphasis will be working to upgrade or migrate databases to newer versions while following standard protocols, processes and adhearing to State Street Lifecycle methodology. 

Superior communication skills. Flexibility and strong tenants for reaching desired outcome. Taking ownership, problem solving and working Collaboratively are important skills in this role.

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• 7 years’ experience working in an Information Technology role


• 5 years’ experience in a high-tech customer-facing role (i.e. Professional Services, Solution Architecture, Systems Administrator, Engineering or Consulting)


• 7 year’s hands-on experience with database migrations and related technologies; experience providing senior level operational support and implementation of large-scale, enterprise level solutions (or demonstrated ability to work at this level – experience with solving problems and making decisions; experience with the fundamentals of configuration of applications)


• Experience and indept knowledge of DB2, Oracle, SQL and Sybase


• Experience with Oracle RAC preferred


• Experience and indepth knowledge with Oracle RDBMS multi-terabyte standalone and grid infrastructure (RAC/ASM) on 11g, 12c, 19c across multiple platforms (Exadata, RHEL, Solaris, AIX, etc.)


• Experience and indept knowledge with Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle DataGuard


• Experience and indepth knowledge with SQL Server 2008,2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 support various configurations using Always On, Mirrors, etc.


• Previous experience with the design of infrastructure and integration into new and existing database systems


• Experience with infrastructure and database theories, principles and concepts, application infrastructure and standards, networking fundamentals, physical server architecture, and virtualization technologies (i.e. VMware, Hyper-V and LAN/WAN/Firewall/VPN networks


• Understand WAN/LAN concepts and the TCP/IP protocol stack

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology; Computer Science or related technical field


• Working knowledge of ticketing systems; creating, updating and closing tickets


• Strong customer service customer service skills (both written and verbal)


• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen and understand what is being described


• Experience with one or more cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

Ability to effectively deliver and execute technical projects across multiple engagements in a customer-facing-capacity