Amazon.com was recently voted #5 most admired company in the US, #1 most innovative, and # 1 in Customer Service. Amazon’s technology business has a history and tradition of leading the world in Web-related technologies and services.

Amazon.com’s AFT Team is currently looking for a Database Administrator position for its Bellevue, WA office to design, develop and manage the persistence solutions that serve and support AFT needs. Database administrator will be part of the worldwide operations and responsible for designing, managing and maintaining highly complex, confidential, mission critical and high availability databases in a dynamic and fast paced environment. This job involves design reviews for new/existing development transportation technologies applications, identify and architect right RDBMS database solutions like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Big Data or No SQL based cloud computing and storage technologies, executing projects to deliver high quality deliverables on time, defining development processes for continuous improvement, driving the technology direction and leading the database engineering team effectively.

Key job responsibilities
· Develop and improve the current data architecture for AFT Databases on AWS Postgres/MySQL/Redshift
· Keep up to date with advances in data persistence and big data technologies and run pilots to design the data architecture to scale with the increased data sets of advertiser experience.
· Database & Application (SQL & PL/SQL) performance tuning, plan stability, hints, analytical queries.
· Monitor and maintain database security and database software
· Implement replication and disaster recovery strategies
· Root cause analysis of production-related database issues
· Daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer/development support
· Review, design and develop data models in conjunction with the application development teams
· On-call for production databases on a rotation basis