*senior systems engineer, database administration (dba) *is a key member of a high performance kontoor global infrastructure services - automation, monitoring and data services team embarking on our next transformational journey to modernize it database administration and services to enable and empower kontoor's business capabilities with enterprise it automation, infrastructure as code and database-as-a-services (dbaas) platforms and transforming current solutions to cloud native solutions. This role is a technical hand-on position primarily responsible for designing, managing and securing kontoor's database systems and services by supporting existing and future controls and processes and through leading efforts to continually automate, improve stability, efficiency, and security across multiple dimensions and domain and enterprise systems, including enterprise infrastructure as code automation using automation tools including azure\sql cloud database services technologies, microsoft power bi and power platforms, and azure devops ci/cd pipelines.
*responsibilities*:
*engineering, operations, and code development*: collaborate with cross-functional team to proactively identify opportunity for optimization, automation, develop, implement, and maintain automated it system for database, analytic, and reporting services delivery and operations. Serve as a key escalation point with the data services administration team, providing guidance for effective resolution.
directly triage and respond to data, analytic, and reporting alerts, database capacity and performance reports, and service requests on a regular basis
lead and support database vulnerability management processes, such as database patching, database security scanning vulnerability assessment, prevention and remediation efforts
ensure that data services and automation solutions adhere to security standards, risk, and compliance requirements, implement access controls, and monitor for code bugs, vulnerabilities, and/or risks adhering to versioning, refactoring and documentation standards.
comply with kontoor change management control, incident response, testing and validate infrastructure changes or problems across the hybrid-cloud infrastructure and distributed environment.
create, maintain and update sops for data, analytic, reporting services functional area disaster recovery. Perform periodic review and testing for database recovery processes
participate in rotational on-call support
providing though leadership, strategies, and design to evolve global it data services architecture, design and delivery to ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, organizational policies, and best practices, including cloud standards and best practices
develops and enforces standards and guidelines to optimize the management, documentation, access, usage, migration, consolidation and safeguarding of company data
*project execution and delivery*: participate in project design sessions analyzing business and technical infrastructure & cloud requirements, processes, integrate solutions of new and existing infrastructure and continuous improvement of standards, processes, procedure across the function are of responsibility through iac automation.
peer review, validate, develop technical designs, prototypes, process designs, testing, training, and definition of support procedures for systems deployment in cloud/on-prem infrastructure(s
develop and maintain appropriate documentation for global it data services platforms, and solutions - including architecture, design, integration flows, implementation, standard operating procedures, and testing lifecycle activities.
prepare formal project documentation, including specifications, requirements summaries, high-level design, low-level logical system design documents, state diagrams, automation integration flow, and test scripts.
provide regular communication to kontoor it management and leadership team on internal team initiatives, global it database-as-a-service (dbaas) journey goals/objectives, infrastructure/automation related projects, and other work assignments.
*leadership*:
no direct reports but need to provide mentorship, cross-training, and guide other infrastructure team members on data, analytic, reporting services and enterprise it database-as-as-service automation cultural transformation
comfortable with lead technical discussion and design workshop and contribute to setting strategic direction as required
operate professionally and thieve efficiently with mínimal supervision in a remote work setting environment.
*requirements*:
- *bachelor's degree in computer science*, infrastructure and database platforms administration, software development/engineering, industrial engineering, management information systems, or related field preferred, or a 10+ years combination of equivalent education and relevant experience
- *10 + years* of progressive experience in supp