Principal Database Engineer, Oracle - Virtual, United States

* Candidates for this role must reside in the United States or Canada. Sponsorship is not available at this time. 

About Us

WorkForce Software, an ADP Company, is the first global provider of workforce management solutions with integrated employee experience capabilities. The company’s WorkForce Suite adapts to each organization’s needs—no matter how unique their pay rules, labor regulations, and schedules—while delivering a breakthrough employee experience at the time and place work happens. Enterprise-grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software is helping some of the world’s most innovative organizations optimize their workforce, protect against compliance risks, and increase employee engagement to unlock new potential for resiliency and performance. Whether your employees are deskless or office workers, unionized, full-time, part-time, or seasonal, WorkForce Software makes managing your global workforce easy, less costly, and more rewarding for everyone.

Over one thousand organizations with more than 4 million users in over 100 countries rely on WorkForce Software solutions to streamline compliance, reduce labor costs, provide more intuitive tools to their employees, and achieve strategic HR on a global basis.

About You

Are you awesome at databases and have a passion for ensuring all aspects of a SaaS product line are providing a great customer experience?  As a Cloud Database Engineer for WorkForce, you will work as part of the Cloud Services team responsible for managing and optimizing mission critical database systems and applications supporting our flagship WorkForce Software management suite of products.   You will constantly seek new ways to improve database processes and optimize repetitive tasks within our production data centers located worldwide. 

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability, performance and scalability of the database platforms that support WorkForce products.
• Drive new technology research and adoption.
• Define and operationalize ongoing database management, maintenance tasks, and performance tuning best practices.
• Educate fellow team members on best practices for database deployments in public clouds, including configuration, health monitoring, backups and availability, data security, and performance.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production application and database issues.
• Create documentation and processes for other team members to follow.
• Mentor and train fellow team members ensuring team members understand and follow documented processes and procedures.
• Responsibility to manage storage and utilization of resources.
• Deliver high-impact, high-value automation.
• Work with other business units to bring visibility into resource consumption and product improvements.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing environment
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience with Oracle 11g/12c/18c/19c
• 6+ Linux system administration
• Proficient with one or more scripting / programming languages (shell, bash, php, perl, etc.)
• Demonstrate great analytic skills, able to independently troubleshoot application issues.
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work with a range of teams and skill sets 

Desired Skills

• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server administration, tuning, and application troubleshooting
• Cloud infrastructure experience with Oracle Cloud
• Experience with both IaaS and PaaS services, including deploying Infrastructure as Code
• Well versed in Agile methodologies

Travel

• Up to 5%

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience.

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive, and employee will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required.

To maintain our goal of remaining a diverse and inclusive company, WorkForce Software advocates for and promotes a diverse, equitable, safe, and professional workplace where all people feel welcomed and empowered. We are committed to creating an environment that supports and celebrates the full range of our individual and collective differences, so that everyone can do their best and most innovative work, on the job and in our communities.

WorkForce Software is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, WorkForce Software will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at careers@workforcesoftware.com, 1-833-987-3831.

WorkForce Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer.