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🕒 May 26

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, manage and support production and development databases. • Ensure production databases have minimal downtime and are tuned for optimal performance and response time. • Responsible for performing security and maintenance releases. • Work closely with a team of developers to define and evolve data model, support application development, and data analytics. • Administer MySQL databases running on AWS Aurora platform, and also responsible for administration of DynamoDB, Redis and Redshift databases.

🎯 Requirements

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent. • 5+ years as MySQL production DBA including experience with design, implementation, backup and recovery, monitoring, and performance tuning. • Experience with 24x7 support and troubleshooting production related database issues. • 2+ years of experience running systems in the cloud (AWS) • 2+ years of experience managing databases in virtual and cloud environments (AWS Redshift, AWS MySQL Aurora, RDS MySQL, EC2.) • Experience with cloud based services related to database administration (AWS Cloudwatch, DataDog, Monyog, Percona monitoring Management PMM, Appd) • Experience with designing and implementing high-availability database features, utilizing various replication and disaster recovery methodologies. • Experience implementing database schema changes in a live production environment requiring minimal downtime and zero performance impact. • Experience defining and implementing database management tools across entire database platform to ensure database performance and stability is maximized across the entire organization • Experience with cloud-specific technologies Simple Storage Services(S3), Route 53, CloudFormation. • Experience in working on version controller tools like GitHub (GIT) etc. • Experience with managing the full life-cycle of database schema design and implementation, which includes script management from development through production releases. • Experience with establishing and implementing database security and backup retention policies. • Experience with scaling up and out (e.g. sharding based on specific keys) databases to meet the needs of increased storage and computing capacity. • Experience managing non-relational database servers such as AWS DynamoDB, Redshift, Redis or other No-SQL platforms. • Thorough understanding Linux/Unix server performance tuning at the OS level

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Well-being and work-life balance • Inclusive environment • Internal mobility