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Bank of America

Senior Cockroach Database Engineer

charlotte, NC

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Bank of America lists this Senior Cockroach Database Engineer opportunity in charlotte, North Carolina. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of the most complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing the services, and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior CockroachDB Engineer to lead the design, engineering, build automation Bank's CockroachDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform. This individual will be responsible for building a secure, scalable, highly available, and automated database platform on the Bank's internal infrastructure while establishing engineering standards and best practices for enterprise-wide adoption.

Responsibilities:

Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes

Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions and provides feedback to the architecture teams

Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies

Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains

Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose

Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards

Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of the CockroachDB DBaaS platform deployed within the Bank's internal infrastructure.

Build automation and self-service capabilities that enable rapid, standardized provisioning of CockroachDB clusters.

Design and implement high availability (active-active), fault-tolerant, and multi-region database architectures.

Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, operational procedures, and best practices for secure, scalable, and compliant CockroachDB deployments.

Drive platform reliability and operational excellence through monitoring, observability, performance tuning, capacity planning, failover automation, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

Define and implement lifecycle management processes for cluster provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and decommissioning.

Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CockroachDB related initiatives .

Evaluate emerging technologies and continuously improve the platform architecture, automation, and operational model.

Required Qualifications:

Extensive hands-on experience with CockroachDB on Linux platforms.

Strong expertise with Ansible automation frameworks.

Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed database platforms in enterprise environments.

Be able to design and implement end-to-end distributed database architectures using CockroachDB with a focus on: High Availability (HA)

Fault Tolerance

Multi-Region Deployments

Active-Active Configurations

Develop automation solutions for: VM-based provisioning

Cluster deployment and configuration

Lifecycle management

Version upgrades and patching

Horizontal and vertical scaling

Implement automated monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities for CockroachDB environments.

Strong expertise in Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation frameworks.

Implement enterprise-grade security controls, including: TLS encryption

Certificate lifecycle management

Vault integration

Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) integration

Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including: Consensus protocols

Replication

Quorum

Failover and recovery mechanisms

Experience integrating database automation with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar platforms.

Ability to define engineering standards, operational best practices, reference architectures, and governance models for enterprise database platforms.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices is a plus

Experience with deploying CockroachDB on AWS public cloud is a plus

Skills:

Adaptability

Business Acumen

Production Support

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Automation

Influence

Innovative Thinking

Solution Delivery Process

Technical Strategy Development

MS SQL Server

Terraform

Ansible

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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Worksite address

charlotte, NC, 28245, US

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