DBA Role- Oracle, MySQL, Postgres

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Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Database Administrator (DBA) where you will be responsible for designing and managing various databases, including AWS RDS and on-premise PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle. In this role, you will collaborate with internal customers to capture requirements, design, create, document, manage, and satisfy requests for ongoing and ad-hoc requirements, dashboards, and scorecards.
Key Responsibilities:
• Achieves organizational goals by defining, integrating, and upgrading a comprehensive architecture to support critical applications, platforms, and databases.
• Designs and maintains databases by determining structural requirements, and developing and installing appropriate solutions.
• Ensures integrity and security of all information and computer systems and digital data, including personally identifiable information (PII).
• Ensures adherence to government regulations and contractual requirements for technological systems and safeguarding of data. Recommends upgrades and systems for purchase.
• Troubleshoots and finds solutions for distributed compute systems issues that affect data storage and performance as they arise.
• Advises and provides direction on platform architecture, technology, and tools. Confirms architecture capability and flexibility to support high availability database systems.
• Serves as a leader in defining and managing The Nielsen Company's database platforms.
• Plans and designs database migrations to the Cloud.
Required Skills/Qualifications:
• Strong understanding of The Nielsen Company processes and standards, including database and compute architecture and design.
• Problem-solving capability and ability to clearly present technical information to technical, non-technical peers, and leadership.
• Scripting skills (bash, SQL, Terraform, PL/SQL, Python).
• Project management and presentation and communication skills.
• Leadership in technology and integrity and trustworthiness with confidential data.
• Expert knowledge and experience of one or more The Nielsen Company standard database technologies: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, MongoDB.
• Expertise with Cloud database technologies, preferably AWS.
Education, Experience, Licensing Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or information systems; master's degree a plus.
• 8 years previous experience as a Senior Database Administrator.
• Certifications are a plus. Read more