Senior Database Engineer

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a Senior Database Engineer you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
• Dependent Care
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Senior Database Engineer Overview:

Sun Country Airlines is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, build, enhance, monitor, and support our mission critical database environments. The Senior Database Engineer will develop an understanding of the business processes and applications that their portfolio supports and contribute in the development of a forward-looking roadmap to keep the portfolio stable, relevant to the business, and cost effective. The Senior Database Engineer will support database environments deployed both on-site and in cloud environments, supporting both transaction type processing and business intelligence.

Essential roles and responsibilities of a Senior Database Engineer:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Handle database migrations from legacy systems and work with application teams independently to manage these migrations.
• Interact with business users to understand needs and provide solutions that meet the requirements.
• Work independently to capture business requirements, design solutions, and manage projects through to completion.
• Function as the primary database SME, while also contributing to cross-functional modeling and analysis projects. Duties can include installation, configuration, monitoring, user account management, maintenance, modelling and analytics.
• Develop scalable solutions considering product or platform availability and recoverability requirements, implementing high availability where needed.
• Development functions include analyzing requirements, developing procedures, automation, testing, deployment and documentation.
• Manage storage environments for data, logs, and backups, while monitoring space and providing growth statistics.
• Create database documentation including data standards, procedures, disaster recovery plan, and definitions for the data dictionary.
• Contribute to the development of a forward-looking roadmap to address upcoming business demand, align with product / industry direction and best practices.
• Provide advice and training to end-users and administrators of the product.
• Maintain a stable and available environment following standard procedures for testing and deployment, including application support and participation in on-call rotations.
• Plan and coordinate testing of changes, upgrades, and new services, ensuring systems will operate correctly in current and future environments.
• Responsible for problem management activities such as issue resolution, root cause analysis, and working with product vendors when needed.

The required qualifications we are looking for in a Senior Database Engineer include:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education/experience
• 5+ years of previous experience as a Database Administrator
• MS SQL experience with automation, monitoring, clustering, coding and software deployment
• Experience with on premise and cloud-based database administration
• Competence with appropriate database tools and supporting technologies
• Strong communication, analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
• Eager to learn, excited about technology and solving problems

Preferred skills:

• MS SQL certification
• Oracle experience
• Previous airline industry experience

Other Duties:

The above statements are intended to provide a summary of key responsibilities and the anticipated work environment of an accountant. They are not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of job duties. Position expectations may change as the needs, or the requirements of the organization evolve.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Sun Country Airlines respects and values every employee's contribution to our business. We believe that an important part of our strength comes from our people and their array of perspectives.

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