Job Description
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Description
United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.
Job overview and responsibilities
As a Database Administrator – Redshift, this position will work closely with development and DevOps teams with a focus on Databases technologies, including Redshift, RDS, Athena and as well as Data Pipeline, Glue to help manage, maintain and support different environments within Data Engineering team.
• Engage with Data Engineering and DevOps team (including internal customers) for Redshift/RDS database administration initiatives
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to understand project requirements and design effective DevOps solutions
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated software builds, testing, and deployment
• Actively work with Database administration, performance tuning, management and security of AWS Redshift deployment and enterprise data warehouseProvide technical support for all database environments including development/pre-production/production databases for the organization
• Responsible for setting up of infrastructure, configuring, maintenance, monitoring of environment including security to support cloud environment working along with DE and Cloud Engineering
• Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
Key Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Knowledge of SQL and Performance tuning
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and other DevOps engineers to design cloud-native applications and deployment strategies.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Manage and optimize Databricks platform.
• Monitor infrastructure health and performance using AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Ensure cloud security best practices, including IAM policies, VPC configurations, data encryption, and secrets management.
• Hands-on DB and Server troubleshooting experience
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and deploy code using Terraform, Gitlab
• Maintain logging, alerting, and monitoring systems to ensure reliability and performance.
This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.Qualifications
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
• • Bachelor's degree
• Computer science or related STEM field
• 3+ years of IT experience
• 2+ years in AWS production environment
• Excellent and proven knowledge of Postgres/SQL on Amazon RDS
• Excellent and proven knowledge of SQL
• Scripting language – Python or similar
• Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
• Must be fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
• Master's degree
• Computer science or related STEM field
• Certified Developer / DevOps/Architect on AWS
