Senior Emerging Database Advisor
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Feb 18, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
The successful candidate will operate within the global management model with responsibility to:
Primarily responsible for NoSQL space (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis platforms)
Liaise and support relevant application groups for database related issues / queries
Lead major project efforts to determine technical scope and execution plan that align with the requirements of the project
Lead incident reviews, troubleshoot database issues, and perform health checks / quality reviews
Perform ongoing performance analysis, tuning and optimization
Automate redundant / recurring database tasks
Provide mentoring to other DBAs and act as escalation
Support initiatives within Arity and CompoZed labs
The successful candidate should have strong communication skills with a proven track record in driving quality, process improvement and technical strategic decisions within the NoSQL DBA environment.
Job Description
Job Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
Have a minimum of 5 years experience as a DBA
5+ years in database management, testing, scripting, or configuration
College degree or equivalent work experience
High degree of knowledge within the Cassandra and MongoDB platforms
Familiarity with Cloud providers (particularly AWS) and open source software
The successful candidate should also be able to demonstrate a high degree of competence in
Leadership
Communication
Planning & Organization
Managing risks & issues
Stakeholder Management (including negotiating with Senior Leadership)
Ability to learn new technologies
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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