Database Administrator in Publishing Technology

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About the Role:

The New York Times is looking for a Database Engineer to help build our next generation of internal tools and services to support our production and publishing operations. We are rebuilding our manufacturing and publishing workflow systems in the latest cloud technologies, with a focus on microservices and serverless technology.

In this role, you will oversee the database setup, monitoring, and tuning of our production-critical systems. You will work in several database technologies with the initial focus on Oracle and AWS RDS databases. You will also help research new functionality, strategically improve our database foundations, and develop best practice standards for all our databases. Using your database expertise, you will also assist software engineers in designing and architecting well-constructed SQL and NoSQL databases and tuning SQL queries.

Your teammates will be other Systems Analysts, Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Project Managers, all working in an Agile environment. You will also work with internal customers company-wide as you build applications that produce the world's greatest journalism. Our applications include a variety of operations from content editing systems, to systems that transmit content worldwide, mobile apps, and applications that control automated plant vehicles.

The position reports to the Director of Publishing Engineering in the Publishing Technology Group.

• You will design, architect, build, and support databases that control publishing and production operations.

• Migrate classic databases and EC2 instances to RDS.

• Optimize database performance, create benchmarks and monitor essential DB operational metrics.

• Willingness to improve and research new technologies and promote new technologies, methodologies, and concepts. Eager to engage in new ideas and innovation.

• Mentor others to adopt new technology, identify improvements, and update our technology.

• Be part of an on-call rotation to resolve production infrastructure issues and incidents, including on an emergency basis.

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of database experience in environments that use some of the following database environments:

  • Oracle - primary requirement

  • MySql

  • BigQuery

  • SQL Server

  • NoSQL

• 2+ years experience directly working with AWS Databases.

• Experience building highly available and redundant database architectures

• Experience troubleshooting and improving SQL query performance.

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