Job Locations US-TX-Southlake | US-TX-Austin

Requisition ID

2025-107627

Posted Date

3 weeks ago(2/12/2025 4:32 PM)

Category

Engineering & Software Development

Salary Range

USD $145,000.00 - $165,000.00 / Year

Application deadline

3/5/2025

Position Type

Full time

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

Schwab is transforming people's lives by changing the way the world invests, and this is a unique opportunity to help shape the technical direction of our modernization and Cloud initiatives. We are recruiting to hire an experienced technologist as a Senior NoSQL Database Reliability Engineer for our Availability and Platform Support initiatives within the Aerospike Administration and Operations team. We are seeking a results-oriented technologist with a passion and proven track record for DB support, automation and delivery at scale. This role is for an individual contributor focused on leading, inspiring and collaborating with a team of highly motivated and talented technicians in meeting our business-driven technology objectives.

What you'll do:

• Will be responsible for administration and maintenance of Aerospike NoSQL database
• Perform database upgrades, OS patching, performance tuning and support activities
• Create scripts to automate database maintenance and administration tasks
• Understand upcoming database features and provide guidance to the application teams
• Benchmarking new features and their impact to the application availability and performance
• Participate in database capacity planning activities for new application features
• Review application database design and provide critical feedback
• Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve unique operations problems on a large enterprise and mission critical applications
• Document and maintain standard operating procedures w.r.t the database
• Aerospike in the cloud setup in Kubernetes cluster

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience with administration and support of Enterprise NoSQL databases like Aerospike, MongoDB
• 7+ years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up Alerts for early determination of the issues
• In depth knowledge of database concepts, replication strategies and high availability architectures
• Experience with database backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, performance tuning activities
• Familiarity with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning
• Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, Java, Powershell, Python, and Bash
• Working knowledge of logging aggregation tools such as Splunk, promethus, grafana or similar tools
• Previous experience in GitHub and harness
• Previous experience in using SALT or Ansible for automation of operational database tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial services industry experience
• Experience with cloud providers like GCP, AWS
• Agile methodologies
• Strong customer orientation with an affinity to proactively own, communicate, and follow-through projects and issues
• Extreme sense of ownership to resolve problems in a distributed environment
• A self-starter with the ability and confidence to independently resolve issues and bring results back to the team

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