Database Engineer

Company: Paychex
Location: Rochester
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATIONPaychex, Inc. (NASDAQ:PAYX) is a leading provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services. By combining its innovative software-as-a-service technology and mobility platform with dedicated, personal service, Paychex empowers small- and medium-sized business owners to focus on the growth and management of their business. Backed by more than 45 years of industry expertise, Paychex serves more than 680,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2020 across more than 100 locations in the U.S. and Europe, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Learn more about Paychex by visiting https://www.paychex.com/employee-benefits and stay connected on Twitter and LinkedIn.DESCRIPTIONA seasoned position requiring in-depth knowledge and experience in database technologies. Knowledge and background in automation required. Experience in platform development and design preferred. Working in a team environment engineering, designing and implementing our infrastructure as code platform. In addition: * Supports cross-functional project teams with sprint planning and execution as well as database support and maintenance activities. This includes database analysis and design, defect identification and remediation, database build and configuration tasks, incident response, and similar IT system support activities to help deliver solutions as required. * Provides technical support during critical and non-critical business hours on database systems. Is proactive and reactive for problem alerting, analysis, resolution, and follow-up to ensure database stability. * Deploys, configures, and supports mostly simple and occasionally moderately complex databases in physical, virtual, and cloud environments for use by internal and external applications. * Performs moderately complex database upgrades/patching as well as periodic health checks in accordance with established policies and procedures. * Proactively identifies and automates the resolution to database availability and performance failures throughout the environment. * Proactively identifies work requests that can be downshifted to Operations staff or automated via software automation and orchestration tools. Ensures that all working knowledge sets are properly documented and communicated. * Participates in in the creation of database standards, designs, best practices, and roadmaps for IT systems and technologies. * Creates and maintains technical reference documentation to be used in support and training of Information Technology (IT) personnel. * Experience using Python or Powershell for automation. * Experience with Ansible or Puppet for automation highly desired.* Experience with DevOps tools highly desired. * Infrastructure as code mindset. * Strong engineering mindset with an aptitude for design and problem solving. * Experience working in an Agile framework Wonder what it's like to work in IT at Paychex? Check it out! https://www.themuse.com/profiles/paychex/team/productdevelopmentanditteams?POSITION REQUIREMENTS * Bachelor's or Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience * Minimum 5 years of experience in Database and System Administration, Software development and engineering.

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