Sears Holdings

Database Administrator

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Hoffman Estates, IL

Job Description

Job Description Req/Job ID: 999392BR
Employing Entity: Transform SR Holding Management LLC
Employment Category: Regular, Full-time
Job Function: Information Technology
Store ID: 58490: Sears Roebuck & Co.

The Database Administration and Architecture team manages data as a vital company asset, to ensure full data integrity, consistency and availability to support Business Unit applications, business consumers and customers. This function retains full integrity of data in the event of a disaster or catastrophe and adopt best practices in a conservative manner in order to deliver services to the corporation. Job Requirements Primary responsibilities

* Work in a globally distributed team to provide robust public Cloud solutions on MySQL
* Design, optimize and document the operational aspects of supporting the MySQL cloud platform
* Drives application development projects to evolve the database architecture and operational design
* Drives the creation of development, staging & production database instances
* Migrates instances from one environment to another
* Performs hands-on systems administration to address incidents, triage problems, and deploy changes.
* Implements tools, alerts, and monitoring capabilities for automating database operations
* Provides knowledge transfer essentials and SOP instruction to the DBA on-call team and to the ESOC team.
* Analyzes and responds to performance and other maintenance issues.
* Tunes the performance of all the staging and production database instances
* Designs and implements back-up and recovery processes with other support teams and ensures they are functioning correctly
* Plans and executes tests of fault tolerance capabilities, including backup/recovery; replication; cluster failover, and disaster recovery
* Included in the on-call rotation to respond to the site incidents.

Required Skills

* Hands-on experience with MySQL is a MUST!
* Hands-on experience with AWS design and implementation
* Experience with Agile and DevOps concepts
* Strong communication and written skills
* Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
* Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts

Desired Skills

* Hands-on experience with Snowflake and Informix
* Experience in Terraform, Chef, Puppet automation/orchestration (or similar)
* Knowledge of security controls for the Public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)
* Knowledge of Linux and Windows containers

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58490

Sears Holdings

Hoffman Estates, IL

Sears Holdings Corporation operates as an integrated retailer in the United States. It operates in two segments, Kmart and Sears Domestic. The Kmart segment operates retail stores that offer a range of products, including consumer electronics, seasonal merchandise, outdoor living, toys, lawn and garden equipment, food and consumables, and apparel; and in-store pharmacies. It provides merchandise under the Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Route 66, Cannon, Adam Levine, Levi's, Lands' End, and Craftsman labels; Sears brand products, such as Kenmore and DieHard; and Kenmore-branded products. As of February 3, 2018, this segment operated approximately 432 Kmart stores. The Sears Domestic segment operates stores that provide appliances, consumer electronics/connected solutions, tools, sporting goods, outdoor living, lawn and garden equipment, apparel, footwear, jewelry, and accessories, as well as automotive services and products, such as tires, batteries, and home fashion products.

It also offers parts and services to builders, developers, designers, and commercial and residential customers; parts and repair services for appliances, lawn and garden equipment, consumer electronics, floor care products, and heating and cooling systems; home improvement services, such as siding, windows, cabinet refacing, kitchen remodeling, roofing, carpet and upholstery cleaning, air duct cleaning, and garage door installation and repair; and protection agreements and product installation services. This segment provides merchandise under the Kenmore, DieHard, WallyHome, Bongo, Covington, Simply Styled, Everlast, Metaphor, Roebuck & Co., Outdoor Life, and Structure brands, as well as under the Craftsman, Roadhandler, and Levi's, brands.

This segment operated 547 full-line stores and 23 specialty stores. Sears Holdings Corporation was founded in 1899 and is based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. On October 15, 2018, Sears Holdings Corporation along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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