Database Migration Specialist (RDBMS: On-prem to AWS)

NorthBay is looking for talented database experts who are passionate about database deployments, management & especially database migrations while adopting novel technologies to solve real-world problems. Ideal candidates would have solid experience/expertise with management/migration of large scale RDBMS from on-premises to AWS RDS and AWS cross account migration. Overall good experience/expertise with Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer database migrations, AWS Cloud, AWS Database services, DMS etc. along with experience in Database/Data migrations automations would be preferred. Location: Lahore/Islamabad/Karachi Experience: 5+ years Requirements:

• Overall 5+ years of experience around database platforms deployments, management and migrations.
• Experience carrying out large scale migration of production databases from On-Premises to AWS RDS and AWS to AWS cross account.
• Experience with AWS DMS, AWS RDS, Oracle database.
• Experience with HA/DR including Backup/Recovery, Clustering, Sharding, Replication, CDC etc.
• Experience with AWS & Automations in terms of database deployments, management and migrations would be a plus point.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible and shell scripting.
• Knowledge of STIGs, Security implementations & overall database governance.
• Proficiency with NoSQL would be a plus point.
• Experience/Knowledge with database migrations especially or extensive expertise with Oracle, Postgres, MySQL in other domains e.g. Data Engineering, ETL/ELT.
• Experience in database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance diagnostics and optimization.
• Good understanding of different kinds of database platforms and workloads e.g. OLTP, OLAP.
• Good problem-solving skills and technical communication abilities.

• Employ customer-facing skills to represent NorthBay well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions regarding trade-offs among multiple options and potential risk mitigations.
• Work closely with Leads/Architects on all fronts (including customer) to help ensure the success of project/migration.
• Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
• Develop and execute database migration strategies and solutions including defining database physical structure and functional capabilities, security, back-up, and recovery specifications.
• Automate/Ansible solutions for repeatable problems.
• Develop data validation plans and cases to demonstrate database readiness post-migration.
• Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Fuel expense reimbursement.
• Paid holidays and vacations.
• Medical outpatient reimbursement & health insurance facility.
• Opportunities to make a difference in a highly productive environment.