Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
CI/CD @ 4
Communication @ 7
DevOps @ 4
Grafana @ 4
IaC
Linux @ 4
Networking @ 4
Observability @ 4
PowerShell @ 4
Python @ 4
SQL @ 6
Splunk @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
The Corporate Technology Group designs, deploys and supports Bloomberg's platforms and systems used by more than 21,000 employees across 170+ offices worldwide. The team supports critical infrastructure services that enable internal applications, data platforms, engineering workflows, and enterprise operations across Bloomberg.
What's the Role?
As a Senior SQL & Hosted Services Engineer, you'll help maintain and continuously improve Bloomberg's globally distributed SQL Databases and application hosting platforms. Working as part of a global engineering team, you’ll drive reliability, automation, operational excellence, and service availability across SQL-backed workloads and the compute, storage, and virtualization platforms they depend on.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the availability, reliability, and operational readiness of compute, storage, virtualization, SQL and supporting platform services.
- Identify and deliver improvements to reliability, simplify processes, reduce manual effort and increase automation across supported platforms
- Help to define and implement operational standards, metrics, documentation and playbooks that improve consistency and supportability.
- Contribute to platform lifecycle improvements, helping engineer services that are easy to operate, monitor, and scale.
- Embrace new technologies, operational practices, and ways of working that improve service delivery and support our long-term platform strategy.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and service health reporting to proactively identify risk and reduce service impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent systems and platform experience.
- 4+ years of experience designing, building and supporting Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure and Windows failover clustering technology to deliver high availability.
- Good working knowledge of enterprise-scale virtualization platforms, multiple Windows Operating System environments, SAN and NAS storage systems and TCP/IP networking.
- Solid understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Sites and Services, SPNs, service accounts, and related Windows Server platform services.
- Experience supporting enterprise backup and disaster recovery processes.
- Working knowledge of PowerShell, Python, SQL/T-SQL, or similar automation and scripting technologies.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work collaboratively across multiple engineering disciplines.
We'd love to see
- Exposure to migrating services to private or hybrid cloud hosting platforms.
- System owner level Linux administration experience.
- Experience with enterprise server infrastructure management platforms such as HPE Oneview.
- Experience creating runbooks, playbooks, operational readiness reviews, and ITSM knowledge articles.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code practices and tools.
- Experience using monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, Falcon, or Humio.
- Experience with SCCM, Windows operating system deployment, software deployment, and patch management.
Salary Range = 130,000 - 225,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
Benefits
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.