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What We'll Bring:
• Responsible for the management and maintenance of Redis.
• Responsible for integrity and high availability of the database environments.
• Experience installing and configuring of Redis on Linux.
• Experience in Redis Database high availability, clustering, geo replication, monitoring.
• Experience adding and removing of nodes in existing Redis cluster.
• Experience with shard migration, failover, carrying out maintenance activities like upgrades, patches and updates in live Redis cluster.
• Design and develop database and cache system solutions and operation and maintenance management tools.
• Continuously improve the database and cache system solutions to ensure the reliable and stable operation of the database.
• Daily maintenance of the database, and emergency recovery when major problems occur.
• Provide database development support and perform index optimization and tuning according to business needs.
• Perform regular system health checks and locate and troubleshoot performance problems.
• Cooperate with various stakeholders to complete a series of database optimization work.
• Master database performance tuning, monitoring, backup, exception handling, fault recovery.
• Master database high availability and dynamic expansion solutions.
• Provide good read and writing skills of separation scheme (IO read/write).
• As part of the DBA team, you will collaborate with peer DBAs, project teams, application contacts to support and maintain current implementations as well as new builds/requirements.
• The role will assist in assuring that the Database implementations are secure, compliant, and adhere to minimum security requirements.
• You will aid in reviewing new enhancements, features, products for future use and planning
• Experience in process/query analysis and buffer tuning.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Minimum 3 to 7 years of hands-on experience as a Redis DBA (both Enterprise and Open Source).
- Worked as a team member to provide 24x7 on-call production database support.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Redis, including installation, configuration, and administration.
- Proficiency in using tools like Redis Insight, Redis Desktop Manager, Splunk, etc. for performance monitoring.
- Experience with Redis clustering, sharding, and high availability (HA) setups.
- Experience in monitoring and optimizing Redis performance, including memory usage, latency, and throughput.
- Experience in securing Redis instances in cloud or on-premises environments.
- Moderate experience with Linux or storage including shell scripting, system monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Solid understanding of Redis data structures, such as strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes.
- Solid understanding of database management and caching concepts.
- Solid Understanding of in-memory data structures and optimization techniques.
- Knowledge of Redis security features, including authentication, encryption, and access control.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery planning.
- Knowledge of data protection regulations.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve database issues.
- Ability to develop and maintain database documentation.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment and meet deadlines.
- Strong communication, organizational, verbal & written skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- High degree of responsibility and ownership, strong multitasking, coordination and tenaciously looking for ways to get results.
Impact You'll Make:
Good To Have:
Experience with cloud concepts like GCP Memory Store.
Experience with PostgreSQL.
Knowledge and experience on Redis modules, such as Redis Graph, Redis JSON, or Redis AI.
Experience with migrating data from relational databases or other NoSQL databases to Redis.
Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration for Redis deployment.
This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
TransUnion Job Title
Engineer, Database Engineering
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What We Do
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace.
We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person.
This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.
Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers. In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve.
We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Why Work With Us
Our culture is welcoming, energetic and innovative. There’s an overall synergy that flows throughout TransUnion, creating a sense of unity in knowing that we’re all working to achieve the same overall goal. We’re dedicated to providing opportunities for our people to get involved and stay connected with their colleagues across the globe.
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