NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 79064 

Florida Power & Light Company is America’s largest electric company, providing clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to more than 12 million people in Florida. We operate one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and our reliability is among the best in the nation. Are you interested in becoming a game-changer in the energy industry? Join our world-class team today! 

Position Specific Description

At NextEra Energy, we are taking our Database Engineers Team to the next level. These talented employees are the drivers of analyzing, designing, developing, testing, debugging, implementing, and integrating new or existing operational efficiencies into the technical infrastructure and existing business processes. In this role you will primarily work with the many different Database technologies but with a focus on Oracle and PostgreSQL. You will also be adding value by designing and developing solutions to improve and enhance our operational processes. You will also drive efficiencies by working with application vendors for issue resolution and provides technical leadership to his/her team and customers. You will use your solutions-oriented approach and high work ethic, along with excellent communication and process management skills, to mentor internal customers and teammates on the Database platforms. 

Please note this role provides 2nd level support on a rotational basis along with development activities.

Required qualifications include:

• Deep knowledge in installing, configuring and maintaining enterprise Database Technology environments such as Oracle and PostgreSQL in an on premise and AWS Cloud infrastructure
• Extensive knowledge installing, upgrading and performing Disaster Recovery efforts with Oracle DB's
• SQL Tuning and Database Performance Evaluation and Configuration
• Systems engineering experience, including AIX / Linux performance, memory management, I/O & Performance tuning, security, clusters and troubleshooting.
• Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership
• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, disaster recovery)
• Coding skills in at least one scripting language a must (TCL, Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years of experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database technologies (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc)
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology
• Experience in shell and python scripting with focus on DevOps tools, CI/CD 
• Significant exposure in various OS administration tasks
• Analytical Problem Solving
• Effective Written Communications
• Effective Verbal Communications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience:5+ years