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Who We Are Looking For
As WebPT’s Senior Manager for Database Engineering, you will play a key role in Database engineering, its operations, and data protection (security, backups, and disaster recovery). You will help design resilient and reliable database services, and ensure secure, highly available and highly performing database operations for WebPT’s SaaS and technology services.
We’re looking for a passionate leader to build and grow the database engineering and operations team. You will be leading a team’s efforts to design, build, support and continuously enhancing the next generation platform of our application services as it scales in scope and usage. You will work closely with product, Development, and support organizations to deliver database services.
What You’ll Be Doing As A Part of Our Team
- Lead, hire and grow the database team, mentor team members, and encourage personal development.
- Build and execute on database engineering and operations roadmap and deliver the agreed milestones.
- Facilitate the strategic direction of the team and identify opportunities to support the engineering organization, recommend / implement solutions to continuously improve service and product reliability.
- Define data and database best practices and influence Dev teams to adopt the defined standards.
- Maintain security compliance and configuration standards and tap on opportunities to automate manual tasks.
- Collaborate with other SaaS Operations and Dev teams to ensure proactive monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery and performance of products to achieve the best customer experience.
- Define and refine appropriate SLA / SLOs and drive to optimize the team productivity.
- Establish and sustain a culture of innovation, accountability, and delivery.
- Subject Matter Expert on how the application works, its underlying architecture, and data relationships. Passionate to solve reliability challenges across the organization.
- Address data and database related escalations, provide ongoing support for customer-facing applications and share a 24 / 7 MIM leadership on-call rotation responsibility. Own the root cause analysis and a fix for incidents.
What You Should Have to Qualify
Minimum of five years experience in software development or maintaining cloud infrastructure.Ability to lead, build, and motivate a team with a wide range of skill sets.Ability to deep-dive into technical issues around database, its security, and operations. Must have good understanding of networking, storage, and servers.Good grasp in software engineering best practices that include Agile methodology.Understanding of how services scale, fail, and recover. You recommend architectural changes and work directly with applications to implement your designs.A great problem solver using reverse engineering discipline. Ability to simplify complex issues.Super eye for troubleshooting data and / or database issues, identifying the root cause and working to fix themFast learner and not afraid of dealing with the unknown. Comfortable to work in a fast tempo environmentBe highly adaptable to change in a fast-moving environment. Great sense of urgency.Able to maintain professional composure in any situation or pressure conditionsAdvanced knowledge of configuration management tooling such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible or ChefAdvanced knowledge of enterprise monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus and APM products (New Relic, AppDynamics or similar)Strong understanding of ITIL practices of change, incident, and problem managementContainer deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with knowledge of service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling and load balancing.Must have managed a database engineering and / or operations team and led popular database technologies (MS SQL Server, MySQL Server, PostgreSQL, AuroraDB)Experience designing and supporting databases in hybrid and multi-cloud environment and highly automated DevOps practices.Critical thinking with excellent written and verbal communication skillsExperience with SaaS software systems in a production environmentExperience in writing and performance tuning database queries / stored proceduresExperience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.Ideally, You Would Also Have These
Experience or exposure to datalakes, analytics tools,Prior experience with HIPAA or PCI environments.AWS Professional or Specialty certification(s).Culture is at our Core
Service : Create Raving FansAccountability : F Up; Own UpAttitude : Possess True GritPersonality : Be MintyWork Ethic : Be Rock SolidCommunity Outreach : Give BackHealth and Wellness : Live BetterResource Efficiency : Do Más With MenosAbout Us
Here, we work hard—but we have lots of fun doing it. We believe in equal opportunity for all, autonomy, trailblazing, and always doing right by our Members. Most importantly, though, we believe in empowering rehab therapy professionals to achieve greatness in practice. So, if you’re a can-do kinda person who loves to help Members win and enjoys working from just about anywhere—then you’ll fit right in. We’ve got big plans, but we can’t achieve them without you. Join us, and let’s achieve greatness.
Company Perks
Ample Time Off for fun and restWork from nearly anywhere in the USTime Off to make an impact through volunteeringMultiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)Health, Dental, Vision, k, HSA, any many other benefitsAuthenticity and AcceptanceAt WebPT, we're dedicated to fair and competitive compensation based upon our industry peer benchmarks. While job postings offer a pay range as a general reference, the final offer depends on candidate qualifications and experience. Our aim is to provide equitable compensation that recognizes your unique skills and contributions. During interviews, we'll discuss your qualifications and expectations, striving for a competitive and fair offer. The initial hiring range for this position is : $, - $,.
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