Senior Database Engineer
Company: Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company
Location: Burbank
Posted on: October 18, 2024
Job Description:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology On any given day at
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to
create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved
stories while also transforming Disney's media business for the
future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products
in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and
distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering
Disney's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a
moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions
of people around the world.A few reasons why we think you'd love
working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
- Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E
Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that
will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses
for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and
operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day -
from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and
ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and
techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences
experience sports, entertainment & news.Engineering Services
designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E
Technology's worldwide content production and distribution
platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of
cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality
Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast
Infrastructure, and Networking & Security.Job Summary:The
individual in this position will join the Data Stores team in an
exciting and fast-paced environment where they will help build and
maintain highly available relational database systems operating
across multiple cloud and on-premise environments. These databases
support many of the systems powering DE&ET's digital media
supply chain and consumer facing products.We're looking for an
individual who can apply software engineering principles to
database engineering and administration to build processes and
automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more
consistently, and with the right level of observability required to
operate at scale.Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DE&ET
database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.
- Leverage software development and automation to design,
modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
- Participates in setting the architectural direction for
database platforms and projects.
- Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced,
deadline-oriented environment.
- Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and
highly available database infrastructure.
- Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through
capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right
sizing.
- Provide database expertise through performance tuning,
troubleshooting and administration.
- Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration
standards.
- Develop automation and tooling to increase operational
efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
- Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency,
availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and
configuration management.
- Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through
metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
- Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
- Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
- May provide oversight and direction to junior team
members.
- Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads.Required
Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
- 5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server,
Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI.
- Fundamental understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database
internals.
- Experience working in Agile software development.
- Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab,
GitHub).
- Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more
programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
- General understanding and experience with Windows operating
system, network, and containers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed,
and highly available database infrastructure.
- Experience in database availability monitoring and status
reporting using native monitoring tools.
- Well-versed in SQL Server backup, restore, and recovery
strategies.
- Experience keeping a large environment compliant by deploying
SQL Server patches and upgrades.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and
implementation.
- Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from
others.Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,
Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable
field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.Preferred
Qualifications:
- Experience operating within a database reliability engineering
(DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role.
- Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production
systems in Azure and Amazon Web Services.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform,
CloudFormation).
- Experience building a proper path to production leveraging
multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD
pipelines.
- Experience with the configuration and implementation of SQL
Server Always On availability groups.
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).
- Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams providing
guidance in SQL Server best practices.
- Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of
improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully
remediate issues.The hiring range for this position in Bristol or
Los Angeles is $112,600 to $151,000 per year, in New York City or
Seattle is $117,000 to $156,000 per year and in San Francisco is
$122,000 to $127,000. The base pay actually offered will take into
account internal equity and also may vary depending on the
candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and
experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive
units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in
addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other
benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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