Associate Director

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 12

**The Impact**: We are looking for a technically strong Database Engineer with a hands-on approach who can bring strong technical skills, communication, and experience to a global team.

**What’s in it for you**: As Database Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of DB Infrastructure and some part of Development with focus on building scalable and highly available solutions on AWS.

**Responsibilities**:
Design, Implement & support new Database solutions, ability to understand requirements, take part in design discussions and deliver solutions end-to-end. Closely interact with all team to understand the workflow and provide suggestions and solutions as and when required.

Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS (required))
Experience with AWS Global Aurora Postgres and Global Aurora MySql.
Experience with cloud database monitoring & administration tools.
Experience in design configuration standards for RDBMS and Non-RDBMS databases.
Experience in developing cloud database engineering solutions for RDBMS and Non-RDBMS databases.
Experience in enforcing cloud database security policies and audit logging mechanisms.
Experience in cloud database automation provisioning, upgrades, security patches & monitoring.
Experience in defining cloud database backup, recovery, retention, and disaster recovery procedures.
Experience in providing solutions to optimize database performance and improve standards.
Experience in Implementing highly available & fault-tolerant solutions to withstand system failures.
Open to work on other AWS available databases Oracle, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift etc.
Maintain database configuration, support procedures, and runbook.
Manage and execute disaster recovery plans and coordinate change control process.
Troubleshoot Production issues and provide workarounds to restore business continuity.
Provision and administer RDS, Aurora, and other databases in AWS Cloud.
Recommend hardware and right-sizing infrastructure.
Hands on experience in AWS Cloud solutions using AWS RDS.
Automate routine Cloud DBA maintenance, patching tasks using scripting technologies.
Develop scripts to automate Database infrastructure provisioning.
Develop solutions for monitoring & alerting databases.
Troubleshoot cloud database performance issues and failures.
Design solutions to migrate data across different databases.
Conduct cost-benefit analysis and provide effective cloud database solutions.
Implement cloud database engineering best practices and controls.
Provide guidance to developers to design complex cloud database solutions.
Suggest improvements to current processes, tools and implementation ideas.
Evaluate new cloud database AWS services and solutions.
Knowledge of design data sharding, partitioning, and BigData solutions (EMR and EMR serverless)
Knowledge of servers, virtualization systems, storage, and network engineering.
Enforce cloud database security policies and audit logging mechanisms.
Experience on tool like Jenkins, Datadog, OEM etc.

**Qualifications**:
Around 11+ years of experience in handling multi-database environment on AWS and on premise.
English Advanced conversation and written skills.
AWS Certifications preferred.
Knowledge on No SQL database and understanding of Python.
Good to have experience in database activity stream (DAS).
Good to know MSK/OpenSearch.
Experience in the financial services sector preferred but not required.
At least bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent. MS in Computer Science is preferred.

**Note**: Work from home role.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s
At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We’re the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ®. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data in