Senior Platform Engineer

Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people's financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: MSSQL Server DBA
Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: CTO - GHS

Impact &contribution: You will contribute to the financial well-being of our customers by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met. If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization then you're the kind of person, we are looking for.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Undertake solution design and engineering of reusable IT services, to provide business value across multiple programmes and initiatives.
• Provide technical consulting and advice to projects to ensure alignment to IT&T strategy, architectures, and utilisation of standardised IT services
• Practice engineering principles, patterns, standards and guidelines across projects and programmes
• Analyse a wide range of technical data within systems and processes, to anticipate and address problems, or identify improvement opportunities
• Identify and mitigate issues or risks associated with design or solution proposals
• Facilitate and contribute to transitioning target architecture from current to desired state
• Provide feedback on effectiveness of target solution architecture, including any comments that impact or change the target solution architecture and standards

Essential skills:

• 10+ years of experience in MSSQL Database Administration (SQL Server 2005 - SQL Server 2022)
• 5+ years of experience in Database Developer (T-SQL)
• 3+ years of administration experience on SQL Server DBA in Public cloud (preferably AWS).
• 3+ years of experience in Scripting/Programming skills (PowerShell, Yaml, Python)
• 2+ years of experience in DEVOPS tools like Ansible / Github
• Ability to perform deep analysis on infrastructure (OS, network, storage)
• Windows Server Failover Cluster experience, thorough understanding of Availability Groups
• Needs to be able to work independently to work towards the goals of the team.
• Expert knowledge in OLTP and Linked Servers including how to secure them.
• Expert understanding of SQL Server security at both server and database levels.

Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.