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Senior Database Engineer
Tacoma, WA

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Senior Database Engineer

Summary

At TrueBlue, Inc., our mission is to be a conduit for good by connecting people and work. We are responsible for putting someone to work every 8 seconds on a worldwide basis. As one strong team, we are redefining how people find work via technological innovations. Our technology vision is to automate our global infrastructure via a migration to the cloud, which is currently underway.

As a member of the TrueBlue Technology organization you will team up with other members of Technology Operations to ensure that all database instances and databases meet data management standards. We are looking for someone who can keep up the demands of a high energy department. In this role you will serve as second tier contact for the corporate office for critical database support including problem solving, reporting, and solution implementation. We are in need of a senior level Oracle database engineer who has 9+ years of professional experience in a similar role, including technical lead experience. You may see the requirements list and feel discouraged because you don't meet 100% of them; we encourage you to apply anyway, there's a good chance you're more wonderful than you think you are.

What you'll be doing:

* You will regularly collaborate with other engineering teams to build scalable, self-healing components for serving our customers' real-time needs to support their applications

Provide Domain Expertise and support for database technologies. You will take part in deployment support, maintenance support and have ownership of a large number of database environments

Evangelize and drive stellar operational practices across the entire engineering team; automation of tasks is a major goal of yours

Respond effectively to ensure minimal downtime of critical Tier 1 business applications, ensuring applications are online and available

You will partner with DevOps, peers and leadership to provide project support, cross-training, documentation, coordination and support of all database environments

You will collaborate with the team to address customer inquiries and issues using the corporate ticket management system, driving them to resolution

Actively engage in and directly contribute to the success of multiple simultaneous projects

You are comfortable participating in Problem Management meetings for Major Incidents and IT Service interruptions

You are skilled in utilizing your project organization skills to interpret customer requirements and turning them into technical solutions

You will execute Compliance tasks in support of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit, legal and discovery requests within requested SLAs

You're excited to mentor other team members and teach them what you've learned about running database services in production at scale

You will participate in an on-call rotation with a team of skilled Database Engineers

We'd love to hear from you if:

You have 9-12 years of work experience in Information Technology, preferably with a good technical understanding of the various hardware, software and networking systems being supported, OR a Bachelor's degree with 8 years' experience; OR a Master's or PhD with 5 years' experience

You have deep knowledge and minimum of 9 years of experience performing administrative and engineering duties for Oracle database internals for and you have experience supporting a minimum of 1 of these additional database platforms: SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Nice to have- Oracle ODA experience

Preference given to those with experience with Hosted, Cloud and Hybrid, Development environments including N-Tier architecture

You have a record of success resolving database incidents within associated server platforms; Windows and Linux in an enterprise environment

You expertly craft and share strategies, and develop roadmaps for process improvement

You have superb communication and time management skills

You've developed excellent analytical, technical and diagnostic skills, and have the ability to lead incident management efforts, resolution efforts and root cause analysis

You are well-versed in monitoring and alerting solutions, including associated software tools

You have knowledge of development agile framework, dev/ops and version control

You have exhibited a track record of trying and learning new things

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at TrueBlue, Inc. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

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