Senior Database Engineer - Oracle/Mongo/PostgreSQL

Comcast’s Technology, Product & Experience organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards. We offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently wherever you choose, with days that require collaboration at one of our offices. Our roles primarily reside inside or around one of our Tech Hubs (Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, Denver, Austin, Silicon Valley, Washington DC/N. Virginia). Some roles can work virtual full-time if they are not near a Tech Hub, but that is dependent upon the needs of the position and amount of collaboration required. Job Summary Comcast's Technology, Product, Xperience team designs, develops, delivers and supports innovative products and services that bring internet, TV and voice to millions of residential and business customers. Our PSS (Technical Shared Services team is looking for a Sr. Database Engineer to continue to manage and store all proprietary information with our TPX PSS (Technical Shared Services) team and to ensure we stay ahead of the competition. Job Description Comcast brings together the best in Database Engineering to support the storage of data within all of our crucial applications teams across the business. If you share in our passion for collaboration, our vision to manage and store data for all applications across the domestic and off-shore Comcast teams, we want you to fast-forward your career with us! As a Sr. Database Engineer, you will be responsible for building, managing, operating and continuously improving Systems, Storage, Database and/or Tools Infrastructure that support Comcast's customer facing applications, back-office and provisioning infrastructure in a 24/7 environment. Focuses on architecting, building, deploying and stabilizing code, services, systems and tools. They drive standardization and service focused instrumentation, resolve break/fix scenarios, engaging broader teams as necessary and partners/leads vendors and regions to deliver continuous improvement. You will contribute to command and control related activities focused on restoration of complex outages, communication across Comcast and rapid restoration, and work and directly lead external vendors, third parties and associated agencies when necessary to address issues across the infrastructure. May participate on 24/7 on-call rotation. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities, act as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment and lead teams or projects and share expertise. You will gain experience in: - Cutting edge database solutions in various RDBMS, NoSQL, and Cloud database technologies. - Researching, recommending, and deploying the high availability, Disaster recovery and replication solutions for critical projects. - Automating the solutions using the popular automation tooling. - Contribute to the development projects related to database services. Required Skills: - Strong Understanding of various relational and non-relational database technologies along with their benefits, downsides and best use-case and help application teams to use the correct database technology based on their specific business use case. - 8+ years hand-on experience managing RDBMS databases like Oracle 12c/19c RAC, PostgreSQL, MySQL or MSSQ (At least 1 RDBMS is required) - 8+ years experience implementing and managing high availability and disaster recovery solutions like Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, ASM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, RMAN, Linux/Unix experience. - 1-3+ years hands on experience with Oracle Golden Gate or any other equivalent replication technology in a production environment, with direct experience in installation, setup, modification, and troubleshooting. - 2+ year installing, automating, scaling and supporting NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, among other emerging technologies (At least 1 NoSQL is required) - 1-2 years Experience working with the databases in public Clouds like AWS, Azure and GCP. - Proficiency in automation - Knowledge of Ansible, Python, Terraform - Willingness and commitment to learn other database, automation, and Cloud technologies - Great communication and collaboration skills - Software development experience and knowledge of modern software development processes. - Knowledge/experience in development programming languages such as Java, Go, Nodejs, html, CSS, bootstrap etc. is a plus. - Knowledge/experience on AI/ML is a big plus. - Ability to multi-task and prioritize with little to no supervision, providing team leadership skills. - Ability to work well under pressure - Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance - Excellent communication skills - Highly driven, highly involved, highly proactive Core Responsibilities Develops solutions for very complex and wide reaching systems engineering problems. Sets new policies and procedures to handle future issues. Creates systems engineering and architectural documentation to be used by others to build and maintain systems. Operating Systems & Disk Management: Provides in-depth knowledge of Operating System internals to aid in solving complex problems. Acts as an authority on at least one supported Operating System. Mentors and trains more junior team members on Operating System concepts, configuration, tuning and troubleshooting techniques. Creates basic task automation scripts in Shell, Perl, VBscript, or similar. May manage servers remotely in a distributed environment. Database Platform Management: Masters understanding of database concepts, availability, performance, usage and configuration. Sets up, fixes and tunes complex standard and non-standard replication. Uses knowledge of existing database platforms to evaluate and recommend new technologies. Uses database knowledge to solve issues on unfamiliar products. Creates and maintains database policies, standards and overall documentation including availability, replication, availability and backup and recovery policy, service level agreement, baseline architecture, change management, access to production, unsupported HW/SW, security & audit violations and risk acceptance. Storage and Backup: Sets up, solves problems and tunes complex SAN software issues. Uses knowledge of existing storage platforms to evaluate and recommend new technologies. Uses storage knowledge to solve issues on unfamiliar products. Creates and maintain policies, standards and overall documentation including availability and backup & recovery, service level agreement, baseline architecture, change management, access to production, unsupported HW/SW, security & audit violations and risk acceptance. Scripting and Development: Develops software in several modern languages. Develops database-backed systems and has a solid grasp of DB schema and query performance. Designs horizontally-scalable solutions with innovative use of storage and networking, including solid APIs for integration with other systems. Applies professional standard methodologies in day-to-day work like revision control, unit testing, or other. Applies statistical data analysis techniques. Networking: Recommends or helps architect an entire system, including network design and topology. Authority in understanding and performing TCP dumps, snoop and other network sniffers. Understands and applies knowledge of most protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP etc.). Application Technologies (Web Servers, J2EE, Applications Servers): Provides authoritative recommendations and advice to the team and/or department in the areas of web services, OS and storage, including being an active liaison to Development, QA and the Business. Provides scaling, design, costing, troubleshooting and impact analysis consultation. Analyzes systems and makes recommendations to prevent possible problems. Takes lead on issue resolution activities using knowledge of complex and company-wide systems. Leads end-to end audit of monitors and alarms based on subsystem knowledge. Takes the lead on defining the requirements for new tools required for operations. Applies time management and project management skills to lead the resolution of issues in a timely and organized manner, effectively communicating necessary information. May consult directly with clients or third party vendors; provides domain expertise. Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance. Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Available to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary. Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. Employees at all levels are expected to: Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job. Be responsible for the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services. Know your stuff - be hardworking learners, users and advocates of our groundbreaking technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences. Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new insights. Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers. Get results and promote growth. Respect and promote inclusion & diversity. Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities. Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees: Medical & Dental 401(k) Savings Plan Generous paid time off Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages. Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas free digital TV and internet. Discount tickets for Universal Resorts, including theme park tickets and onsite hotel rooms. Learn more at jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation. Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications. Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. Education Bachelor's Degree While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience. Relevant Work Experience 7-10 Years Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.