Senior Database Administrator (Remote)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will drive the development, design, testing, deployment and iterative improvement of database capabilities, features and APIs. 

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, end-users and other engineers on the database team

• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, end-user feedback, and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes

• Develop and integrate high-quality database products that are secure, simple to use, easy to operate and fully integrated

• Manage all technical aspects related to the database product lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD and documentation

• Establish and evangelize database engineering and software development standards

• Mentor and assist engineers, driving new ways of improving and simplifying the platform user experience for development teams

• Implement software engineering practices using tools that are both cloud-based and on-premises

• Responsible for all the database product lifecycle technical aspects, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD, and documentation. 

• Contribute to creating high-quality, secure, easy-to-use database products that enhance the development team's user experience

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Ability to turn complex, distributed systems into highly available, fully integrated and easy-to-use products

• Experience in development, infrastructure systems, infrastructure operations and infrastructure security

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly

• Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer

• Experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP and/or AWS), including an understanding of cloud-native database services

• Participate in on-call rotation to assist in triage and incident resolution

Preferred

• Oracle Certified Professional or equivalent certifications in database technologies

• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development

• In-depth experience with deploying, configuring, migrating, and supporting common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies such as Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL

• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development practices

• Advanced knowledge and experience working with infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description at any time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner