Database Engineer II - Remote

UNFI is North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering a wide variety of products to community grocers and retail chains. The Database Engineer II is responsible for engineering and delivering scalable and secure database solutions, ensuring quick resolution of problems and long-term solutions to prevent recurrence.

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements through collaboration with other IT and business teams
• Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration of transactional databases to ensure availability
• Decide appropriate solutions through applying technical knowledge, solutions may range from upgrades, patches, backup and recovery, monitoring or configuration
• Communicate determined solutions to team members and direct management
• Evaluate and execute requests and work orders
• Participates in the implementation and optimization of enterprise infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with the existing technologies
• Applies technical expertise in decision making and in the resolution of problems which are complex and technical in nature
• Preventative maintenance measures are applied to ensure incidents don't occur in the environment
• Collaborate with teams to promote automation and develop consistent technical build, implementation and support processes
• Utilize standard enterprise tools to develop or implement infrastructure hardware, software or other technical components
• Observe and comply with company change and incident management procedures
• Performs other duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline or a combination of relevant IT experience and education
• 5-6 years' experience in assigned, specific technical DBMS
• 5-6 years' experience working in large scale database environments (5000 employees or large-scale service provider minimum)
• Experience with writing SQL and scripting (e.g., Powershell, Ignio, Korn, etc.)
• Experience with server virtualization tools from such vendors as VMWare, Microsoft, Red Hat, Oracle, Amazon, Google
• Experience with Cloud hosting from such vendors as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM
• Experience using tools for monitoring, capacity planning, analysis and performance tuning
• Experience implementing database solutions in a large-scale environment
• Must have solid experience backing up and recovering databases
• Knowledge of assigned specific technical domain
• Ability to work independently and break down assigned work into workable tasks
• Communication skills written and verbal
• Ability to collaborate across teams to achieve results
• Ability to create well written technical documentation
• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available
• Prior application programming experience
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable solutions
• Lead experience