# Sr. Database Engineer, SQL Server

**Company**: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
**Location**: Bristol, CT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,100.00 to $193,200.00 and $150,900.00 to $202,400.00 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join DEEP&T as a Senior Database Engineer, where you will analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products for use in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs.

The individual in this position will join the Data Stores team in an exciting and fast-paced environment where they will help build and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud and on-premise environments.

**Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:**

- Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.

- Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.

- Participates in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects.

- Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.

- Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.

- Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.

- Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.

- Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.

- Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.

- Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and configuration management.

- Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.

- Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.

- Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.

- May provide oversight and direction to junior team members.

- Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads.

**Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:**

- Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- 5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI.

- Fundamental understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database internals.

- Experience working in Agile software development.

- Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).

- Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.

- General understanding and experience with Windows operating system, network, and containers.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.

- Experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using native monitoring tools.

- Well-versed in SQL Server backup, restore, and recovery strategies.

- Experience keeping a large environment compliant by deploying SQL Server patches and upgrades.

- Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.

- Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others.

**Benefits:** The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Azure SQL
- Azure SQL MI
- Python
- Java
- Go
- Agile software development
- Git
- GitLab
- GitHub

### Nice to have
- Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role
- Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in Azure and Amazon Web Services
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with the configuration and implementation of SQL Server Always On availability groups
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef)

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