Staff Database Engineer

Job Description

Major Activities

• Partner with IT leaders and peers to influence and define strategic technology direction, target state solutions, and develop technology roadmaps in partnership with IT leadership and other business unit leads.
• Assist in defining the on-premises and cloud infrastructure aligned with Michaels IT strategy and growth into the global marketplace.
• Lead systems design, development, and deployment, primarily focusing on business needs.
• Facilitate organization change and promote best practices.
• Support the infrastructure maintenance and operations, establish and enforce technology operations standards and processes, and advocate best practices.
• Collaborate to develop and implement strategic plans for data-center operations, infrastructure architecture and engineering, monitoring capabilities for devices and applications.
• Participate in the architectural and operational aspects of both transformational and keep-the-lights-on projects, including planning, resource allocation, risk management, and progress tracking.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and work with leaders to determine budget.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, project managers, and engineering professionals to ensure architectural alignment with project objectives and ongoing system management.
• Assist in developing plans, procedures, and activities to support business recovery when problems occur, including backup and restoration procedures, vendor agreements, spare parts, data retention and restoration planning.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends, evaluating their potential for improving system efficiency, functionality, and long-term sustainability.
• Ensure that execution of architectural decisions align seamlessly with organizational objectives.

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Minimum Type of Experience the Job Requires

• 6-7 years of experience in infrastructure architecture, design, and operation.
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure provisioning, configuration and security aspects of on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies
• Experience in enterprise infrastructure support and operations and ITIL standards
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and practices
• Understanding of network routing and switching
• Understanding of storage networks, shared and block devices

Skills

• Experience with cloud-based database services (e.g., AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, OCI Database)
• Experience with databases like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL Server
• Knowledge of database monitoring and alerting tools like Datadog, Grafana
• Experience in building and managing large scale DB systems
• Contributions to open-source database projects