Azure Lead Engineer

Req ID: 248733 

NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Azure Lead Engineer to join our team in Noida, Uttar Pradesh (IN-UP), India (IN).

Preferred Experience:

• Ideal candidate has been supporting traditional server based relational databases (DB2,Postgresql and MongoDB) for over 6+ years out of which last 3+ years in public cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) 
• DB2-installation and maintenance of the databases. AWS/GCP
• DB2 upgrades and patches checkouts, performance and capacity monitoring & management, and security compliance. AWS/GCP
• Monitoring health check jobs like Image copy, Runstats, DDL$DML reports.
• Rebalancing of Partitions. AWS/GCP
• Space Management and Monitoring.
• Performed End-to-End Release activities.
• Creating and scheduling utilities like COPY, Reorg, RUNSTATS and QUIESCE.
• Running Adhoc Reorgs, Runstats and Rebinds in Productions Environment. 
• Implementing and scheduling production DB2 jobs. - AWS/GCP
• Monitoring on daily, weekly and monthly batch cycles.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing PostgreSQL databases on AZURE, GCP and AWS RDS.
• Experience with features such as automated backups, maintenance, and scaling - Postgresql
• Ability to analyze and optimize complex SQL queries for performance improvement.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring tools for PostgreSQL on AWS/AZURE/GCP.
• Experience with configuring alerts based on performance metrics.
• Experience in implementing and testing backup and recovery strategies for PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS/AZURE SQL/GCP Cloud SQL.
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing disaster recovery plans for PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS/AZURE SQL/GCP Cloud SQL.
• Good Understanding of database security principles and best practices.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience in optimizing database configurations for better performance.
• Able to provide 24*7 shift hours support at L2/L3 level
• Experience in updating KB articles, Problem Management articles, and SOPs/runbooks
• Passion for delivering timely and outstanding customer service
• Great written and oral communication skills with internal and external customers
• Strong ITIL foundation experience
• Ability to work independently or no direct supervision.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members
• Work directly with end customer, business stakeholders as well as technical resources.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
• Work directly with end customer, business stakeholders as well as technical resources.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of overall operational experience
• 3+ years of Azure/AWS/GCP experience as a cloud DBA (DB2/Postgresql/Mongo DB)
• 3+ years of experience working in diverse cloud support database environments in a 24*7 production support model
• Query fine tuning - MongoDB 
• Shell scripts for Monitoring like ‘slow queries’, replication lag, nodes fails, disk usage. Etc
• Backup and restores (Backups should be automated with shell scripts/Ops Manager)
• Database Health check (Complete review of Database slow queries, fragmentation, index usage. etc)
• Upgrades (Java version, Mongo version. etc)
• Maintenance (Data Centre outages etc)
• Architecture design as per the Application requirement
• Writing best practices documents for shading, replication for Dev/App teams
• Log rotation/ maintenance (mongodb, config etc)
• Segregation of duties (User Management – designing User roles and responsibilities)
• Designing DR (Disaster Recovery)/COB (Continuity of Business) plans as applicable
• Database Profiling, Locks, Memory Usage, No of connections, page fault etc.,
• Export and Import of Data to and From MongoDB, Run time configuration of MongoDB,
• Data Managements in MongoDB Capped Collections Expired data from TTL,
• Monitoring of Various issues related with Database,
• Monitoring at Server, Database, Collection Level, and Various Monitoring Tools related to MongoDB,
• Database software Installation and Configuration in accordance with Client defined standards.
• Database Migrations and Updates
• Capacity management- MongoDB
• Hands on experience in Server Performance tuning and Recommendations
• High availability solutions and recommendations
• Hands on experience in Root cause analysis for business impacting issues.
• Experience with SQL,SQL Developer,TOAD,Pgadmin,mongo db atlas
• Experience with python / powershell scripting – preferred
• Secondary skill in MySQL/oracle – preferred
• Installation, configuration and upgrading of postgresql server software and related products

Preferred Certifications:

• Azure fundamentals certification (AZ-900) – preferred
• Azure Database Certification (DP-300) – preferred
• AWS Certified Database Specialty – preferred
• DB2,Postgresql certification a plus
• Google Cloud Engineer - preferred

Four Year BS/BA in Information Technology degree or equivalent experience

About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications, headquartered in Texas. As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion trusted global innovator with a combined global reach of over 80 countries, we help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients’ long-term success. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more.

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.

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