Database Administrator Associate

**Job description**:
**About this role**

Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, and solving some of the world’s most exciting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?

At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

We invest and protect over $11 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being.

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

**Team Overview**
- You will be working on BlackRock's investment operating system called **Aladdin**, which is used both internally within BlackRock and externally by many financial institutions. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform. It powers informed decision-making and creates a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.
- Our development teams are part of **Aladdin Engineering**. We collaborate to build the next generation of technology that transforms the way information, people, and technology intersect for global investment firms. We build and package tools that manage trillions in assets and support millions of financial instruments. We perform risk calculations and process millions of transactions for thousands of users worldwide every day.

**Your Team**:
The **Database Hosting Team** is a key part of **Platform Hosting Services**, which operates under the broader **Aladdin Engineering** group. Hosting Services is responsible for managing the reliability, stability, and performance of the firm's financial systems, including Aladdin, and ensuring its availability to our business partners and customers.

We are a globally distributed team, spanning multiple regions, providing engineering and operational support for online transaction processing, data warehousing, data replication, and distributed data processing platforms.

**Your Role and Impact**:
Data is the backbone of any world-class financial institution. The **Database Operations Team** ensures the resiliency and integrity of that data while providing instantaneous access to a large global user base at BlackRock and across many institutional clients. As specialists in database technology, our team is involved in every aspect of system design, implementation, tuning, and monitoring, using a wide variety of industry-leading database technologies.

We also develop code to provide analysis, insights, and automate our solutions at scale.

We are passionate about performance and innovation. At every level of the firm, we embrace diversity and offer flexibility to enhance work-life balance.

**Your Responsibilities**:
The role involves providing operations, development, and project support within the global database environment across various platforms. Key responsibilities include:

- ** Operational Support for Database Technology**:

- Engineering, administration, and operations of OLTP, OLAP, data warehousing platforms, and distributed No-SQL systems.
- Automation and development of database operational, monitoring, and maintenance toolsets to achieve scalability and efficiency.
- Database configuration management, capacity and scale management, schema releases, consistency, security, disaster recovery, and audit management.
- Managing operational incidents, conducting root-cause analysis, resolving critical issues, and mitigating future risks.
- Assessing issues for severity, troubleshooting proactively, and ensuring timely resolution of critical system issues. Escalating outages when necessary, collaborating with Client Technical Services and other teams, and coordinating with external vendors for support.
- ** Project-Based Participation**:

- Involvement in major upgrades and migration/consolidation exercises.
- Exploring and implementing new product features.
- Contributing to performance tuning and engineering activities.
- ** Contributing to Our Software Toolset**:

- Enhancing monitoring and maintenance utilities in Perl, Python, and Java.
- Contributing to data captures to enable deeper system analysis.

**Qualifications**:

- B.E./B.Tech/MCA or another relevant engineering degree from a reputable university.
- 4+ years of proven experience in Data Administration or a similar role.

**Skills and Experience**: