Staff Database Engineer - Twist Bioscience

Database engineer and database administrator specialized in relational database management systems and in particular RDS for PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora services

Technical Qualifications

• 10+ years of relational database management experience (RDBMS)
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL and other relational database management systems.
• Experience in deploying, managing and supporting mission-critical operational production systems based on AWS Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL databases
• Experience in database disaster recovery and high availability best practices, backup and restore strategies, and different database upgrade options.
• Experience in database monitoring and alerting best practices
• Strong experience in database optimization for performance, availability and scalability
• Working experience in defining and adopting database security best practices
• Good understanding of related Amazon web services including EC2, EBS, IAM, and S3
• Solid understanding of non-relational database engines (NoSQL), e.g. MongoDB, Redis, etc. and workloads are best suited for each of them. 
• Experience in AWS RDS cost optimization best practices such budget alerts, RDS capacity vs utilization monitoring, and database RIs plans a plus
• Familiarity with DevOps CI/CD practices and technologies a plus

Professional Attributes

• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Effective interpersonal communication skills, both in verbal and in written form
• Excellent work ethics 
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall database services strategy and best practices
• Implement database availability and resilience best practices, e.g. high availability, disaster recovery
• Develop and maintain database backup and recovery plans
• Design, monitor and enforce database security and compliance best practices.
• Monitor and optimize databases for performance, and scalability.
• Database capacity planning and capacity monitoring.
• Best practices in database provisioning and deployment automation
• Troubleshoot databases related issues
• Database maintenance including data refresh, database upgrades, configuration parameters optimization, database monitoring and alerts.
• Guide developers on database design good practices
• Participate and assist developers in application database related issues 

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Database Management, or related discipline.
• Certificate in “AWS Certified Database - Specialty” a plus