Staff Database Engineer Job at Michaels Stores, Irving, TX

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  • Michaels Stores
  • Irving, TX

Job Description

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

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