MetLife

Role Value Proposition:

At MetLife, our Database Infrastructure team within Global Infrastructure is dedicated to making a difference. We prioritize our customers' perspectives and continuously strive to enhance and simplify their experience. Whether you're focused on safeguarding our customers' and employees' data, developing top-tier database solutions, or utilizing data and analytics to transform customer insights into customer-centric solutions, your work has a significant impact. Each of us plays a crucial role in bringing MetLife's mission of building a more confident future to life. Interested in joining our team? We'd love to have you!

The Database Reliability Engineer position is responsible for implementing and operating SQL Server platforms both on-prem and in Azure. This role involves implementing, managing, and optimizing existing SQL Server platforms globally in a 24/7 environment, as well as evaluating and onboarding new database platforms and tools across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to continuously improve stability and increase self-service through automation, self-healing, and AIOps, providing a best-in-class experience for our application development partners. An ideal candidate should have experience with various database platforms, data engineering, automation, DevOps, and infrastructure/configuration as code, and be able to contribute in multiple ways. 

Success in this role requires a forward-thinking individual who excels at managing data platforms using innovative methods, adapts quickly to new tools and technologies, and delivers what truly matters to customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement automation or infrastructure-as-code solutions for managing database infrastructure.
• Assist with the research, design, and operation of scalable and reliable data infrastructure solutions.
• Improve SQL Server database performance through tuning and optimization procedures.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and remediate database issues.
• Assists with security policies and oversees database configurations to meet data security standards.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills: 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or another related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience in automation and scripting of databases and knowledge of database internals.
• Strong scripting experience with PowerShell, T-SQL, Python, Ansible, and/or Automation experience using DevOps tools
• Experience utilizing various high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) options for SQL Server. 
• An interest in performance tuning, along with a basic understanding of how to read execution plans. 

Preferred: 

• Experience in On-prem SQL Server, Azure IaaS & PaaS, including Azure SQL database and Azure Managed Instance. 
• Good work attitude and strong willingness to learn and adapt to newer tools and technologies. 
• Hands-on Automation and orchestration experience with the ability to bring additional knowledge and work experience in PowerShell, T-SQL, Ansible & Elastic to our team. 
• Experience with one or more of the 3rd party products we use (Elastic, Rubrik, AppDynamics, IBM TWS Scheduler, IBM Guardium, ServiceNow) 

At MetLife, we're leading the global transformation of an industry we've long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we're dedicated to make a difference in the lives of our customers.