Staff Database Engineer

Major Activities

Partner with IT leaders and peers to influence and define strategic technology direction, target state solutions, and develop technology roadmaps in partnership with IT leadership and other business unit leads.

Assist in defining the on-premises and cloud infrastructure aligned with Michaels IT strategy and growth into the global marketplace.

Lead systems design, development, and deployment, primarily focusing on business needs.

Facilitate organization change and promote best practices.

Support the infrastructure maintenance and operations, establish and enforce technology operations standards and processes, and advocate best practices.

Collaborate to develop and implement strategic plans for data-center operations, infrastructure architecture and engineering, monitoring capabilities for devices and applications.

Participate in the architectural and operational aspects of both transformational and keep-the-lights-on projects, including planning, resource allocation, risk management, and progress tracking.

Ensure projects are delivered on time and work with leaders to determine budget.

Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, project managers, and engineering professionals to ensure architectural alignment with project objectives and ongoing system management.

Assist in developing plans, procedures, and activities to support business recovery when problems occur, including backup and restoration procedures, vendor agreements, spare parts, data retention and restoration planning.

Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends, evaluating their potential for improving system efficiency, functionality, and long-term sustainability.

Ensure that execution of architectural decisions align seamlessly with organizational objectives.

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Minimum Type of Experience the Job Requires

6-7 years of experience in infrastructure architecture, design, and operation.

3+ years of experience with infrastructure provisioning, configuration and security aspects of on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies

Experience in enterprise infrastructure support and operations and ITIL standards

Strong understanding of software engineering principles and practices

Understanding of network routing and switching

Understanding of storage networks, shared and block devices

Preferred Skills

Experience with cloud-based database services (e.g., AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, OCI Database)

Experience with databases like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL Server

Knowledge of database monitoring and alerting tools like Datadog, Grafana

Experience in building and managing large scale DB systems

Contributions to open-source database projects