Title: Infrastructure Database Principal Engineer

Location: Fort Worth, TX 76155 (3 days hybrid)

Duration: 7 months Contract to Hire

Pay Rate: $65.00/hr on W2 (Please let me know if anyone is asking for higher rates)

Visa: Only USC or GC

Interview: Virtual (through MS Teams

Client: American Airlines

Note:

Top 4 skills - Looking for Database Admin with Mongo DB, SQL Server, Azure, Postgres. If candidate has any migration related project experience would be a huge plus.

Description:

Why you'll love this job. • As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivalled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline. • The Infrastructure Domain in Information Technology is dedicated to managing and maintaining the client/server hardware and software that underpins an organization's computing environment. This domain covers various responsibilities, from IT logistics to data center management. It supports various technologies, including VDI, API management, and infrastructure tools and processes to ensure business systems operate efficiently, reliably, and securely.

What you'll do. As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job, but additional functions may not be referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks to be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate, observing any legal obligations, including any collective bargaining obligations. • Plan and implement database designs, including the creation and maintenance of cloud databases • Allocate resources such as Storage / Compute / Memory. Implement strategies for HA, Failover DR and Replication. • Fine-tune database systems to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability - including monitoring and optimizing database query performance, indexing etc. • Establish access and authentication controls to secure data, setup encryption, masking as required. • Manage and monitor performance, security, and availability of databases • Implement database backup and disaster recovery procedures • Work with development teams to optimize database usage and query performance • Coordinate and manage migration of databases to Azure platform • Perform capacity planning and demand forecasting for database systems • Identify and troubleshoot any database-related issues in a timely manner • Perform capacity planning and demand forecasting for database systems • Stay current with the latest Azure technologies, trends, and techniques Will be the lead engineer for Cloud Databases

Qualifications: • 7 to 9 years of Database Administration experience. with any of the database management systems (Client SQL Server, PostgreSQL etc.). • 5 to 7 years experience working with large database / large scale projects. • 3 to 5 years of experience with cloud-based database technologies (Azure SQL, Azure SQL MI, Azure SQL for PostgreSQL. • 1 to 3 years experience with NoSQL database systems (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j, Neptune etc.). • Familiarity with Client DevOps and PowerShell scripting.

Top 3 Mandatory Skills and Experience: BS/BA in Computer Science or related field Advanced SQL Server Administration 2 years experience with PostgreSQL and 1 year NoSQL