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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

Job Description

Department overview

S&P Global provides innovative products and services that enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Our customers include banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, auditors, fund administrators and insurance companies. We develop large scale technology platforms and enterprise software to produce global financial data with focus on analysis and regulatory requirements.

Position summary

We are seeking a bright, self-motivated, experienced strong DBA to work within the Site Reliability Engineering team. You should have strong AWS DB infrastructure knowledge & understanding. You will be involved in defining our strategic direction, and ensuring our estate is cost optimized and tuned to ensure our services operate efficiently. Our estate is global and complex, the team cover the full estate and support our global client base. Ideally you will have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in AWS technologies such as RDS/Aurora, configuration, and security management. You will be engaging directly with senior stakeholders and peers across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with engineering, product and operations teams to help define the strategic direction for our database estate across all SwS products

• Implementing ITIL standards for DBA operations support

• Defining and implementing IaC and config management mechanisms within the DBA team

• Building and enhancing our DBA skillset & capabilities across products with a view to future technology implementations

• Manage cloud database changes through change request process and provide status reports to the relevant stakeholders.

• Provide timely status updates to relevant stakeholders.

• Ensuring a robust monitoring and alerting solution is in-place across the estate

• Performance and availability strategy with SOP for cloud database systems

• Empowerment of team for proactive and corrective actions to improve performance and availability.

• Ensure service levels meet requirements. Propose, and implement, action plans when required.

• Support cloud service continuity measures including backup & restore procedures and disaster recovery plans, to ensure continuous operation of the business.

• Conduct root cause analysis and implement proactive measures where required.

• Provide cloud database systems related technical advice to customers or project teams for manageable issues.

• Follow cloud security standards or best practices to avoid security breaches and reduce system vulnerability. Keep up to date on current security.

• Provide input to security audits (as required) and implement the necessary actions.

• Initiate new responsibilities and help improve service level to customers.

• Using best practice. Plan, design, install, test and implement cloud database systems in accordance with specifications and SLAs.

• Provide database troubleshooting, performance tuning and consultancy sessions.

Requirements

• Strong leadership experience in challenging service environments

• Strategic thinker with a view to future technologies

• Pragmatic approach to problem solving

• Experience of working in financial services or similar is highly desirable

• Experienced in working within AWS infrastructure. 3yrs+ To be able to spec, size, deploy and test clusters of RDS/Aurora Databases

• Familiarity with security configuration for Sql, PostgreSQL,

• Familiarity with performance configuration for Sql, PostgreSQL,

• Knowledge and experience implementing backup and restore strategies

• Knowledge of setting up standalone DB in EC2.

• Strong awareness of DB performance tuning and observability practices

• Knowledge of NoSQL is desirable

• Providing inputs to engineering to assist developers in understanding how RDBMS systems work

• Impact analysis e.g. the effect of scaling of services

• Comfortable with observability tooling

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code is desirable

Personal Impact

• Thought leader with focus on delivery

• Displays energy, drive, and stamina

• Can make decisions and take calculated risks

• Analytical and can work with the business stakeholders daily

• Open minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations.

• Comfortable working with global teams operating across different time zones.

Communication

• ­Must be an excellent communicator both written and verbally.

Teamwork

• Ability to collaborate effectively with overseas team.

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence .

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 into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:  EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com  and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. 

US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf   describes discrimination protections under federal law.

20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 302584

Posted On: 2024-06-10

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India