Senior Database Consultant
Nutanix
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Job Description
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Database Consultant to join our Professional Services team in EMEA. This Consultant will work in the Services organization to help clients establish architectural vision and direction. He or she will help clients design, deploy, and migrate Nutanix Database Service (NDB) related projects, as well as work with software developers, consultants, and engineers to create scalable and repeatable solutions for partners.
About The Team
The Nutanix Professional Services team delivers a strong influence on the success of each Nutanix implementation by its customers. The Services function ensures success by engaging with customers in the pre-sales and post-sales stages by assisting in their software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy and architecture. Besides helping customers implement Nutanix products successfully, the Professional Services team, working with our partners, ensures customer success in fully implementing their virtualized and software-defined data centers. The Nutanix Professional Services Consulting function includes assessment, design, implementation, integration, and automation services as well as project management.
Your Role
As a Senior Database Consultant, you will engage with clients to compare and contrast various database technologies and provide value propositions according to the client’s application landscape. You will be responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment, and management of database services utilizing Nutanix NDB on on-prem as well as NC2 Cloud. You will provide Database consultancy services to existing Nutanix customers as well as potential customers and evangelize the Nutanix platform to Application owners, DBAs, and management. You will participate in pre-sales involvement to provide services overlay to the existing sales motion primarily as an SME, and create toolkits, best practice documents, and whitepapers.
What You Will Bring
- Minimum 3 years of database experience in Oracle, SQL Server, or other commercial/open-source database platforms, preferably on large scale environments.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in database implementation such as Oracle, Oracle RAC, SQL Server, SQL Server Always On.
- Experience in handling multiple Cloud Environments for database migrations for Oracle/MySQL/Postgres databases is preferable.
- Experience operating mission-critical database applications in on-premise, cloud, or hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience in migrating mission-critical database environments from one platform to another.
- Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery, and server tuning strategies including parameters, resources, contention, etc.
- Experience with scripting and automation, expertise with writing and reading SQL queries.
- Knowledge of replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Dataguard, and SQL Server Log-Shipping.
- Database design experience in virtual environments.
- A good team player with effective communication and the ability to work independently.
- Knowledge and operational experience of Open Source databases like MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL will be an advantage.
- Fluency in English is required; additional language is nice to have.
Key skills/competency
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server
- Nutanix NDB
- Database Migration
- Cloud Environments
- High Availability (HA)
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Scripting & Automation
- SQL Queries
- Database Architecture
How to Get Hired at Nutanix
- Research Nutanix's culture: Study their mission, values (Hungry, Humble, Honest, Heart), recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your extensive experience in Oracle, SQL Server, cloud database migrations, and Nutanix NDB expertise.
- Showcase consulting acumen: Emphasize your ability to engage clients, provide architectural vision, and evangelize technical solutions.
- Prepare for technical depth: Be ready to discuss high availability, disaster recovery, scripting, SQL, and specific database replication technologies.
- Demonstrate problem-solving: Provide examples of designing and implementing scalable database solutions in complex on-prem, cloud, or hybrid environments.
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