Bioinformatics Database Engineer (PDB) – Part-Time

Rutgers University; Piscataway Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 103,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plans

Education benefits

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rutgers University is seeking a part-time database programmer for the RCSB PDB team. The role involves managing database administration tasks, scaling data exchange with wwPDB partners, and developing robust data processing pipelines.

The position emphasizes collaboration with scientists and software developers in a dynamic academic environment. Applicants should have a CS degree or relevant certification and hands-on experience with MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Python, and C++.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science or relevant certification.
• DB administration skills in MySQL, MongoDB, and MariaDB.
• Knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, and integrity.
• Experience with software development in Python programming and shell scripting.
• Experience with creating and updating DB schemas with complex relationships.
• Experience with DB data manipulations (loading, performance measurement, backup).

Responsibilities

• Perform weekly update processes for updating PDB archives.
• Monitor update performance and implement changes for improvements.
• Extend and maintain data exchange with wwPDB partners.
• Improve and maintain weekly update related software/scripts.
• Extend and maintain new content types in the PDB archives.
• Build and support database systems of high availability and quality.
• Design new relational database schema, integrate complex bioinformatics data, and improve existing schemas through normalization.
• Improve existing backup processes for both relational and non-relational DBMS.
• Provide users with data in appropriate formats and in a timely manner for data analysis and statistical reports.
• Indexing and query performance tuning.
• Monitor database performance, implement changes, apply new patches and update versions when required.
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques for database backups.

Skills

DB administration

MySQL

MongoDB

MariaDB

Python

Shell scripting

C++

Data backup

Data integrity

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science or related certification

Tools

MySQL

MongoDB

MariaDB

Python

SQL

Job description

Rutgers University is seeking a part-time database programmer for the RCSB PDB team. The role involves managing database administration tasks, scaling data exchange with wwPDB partners, and developing robust data processing pipelines.

The position emphasizes collaboration with scientists and software developers in a dynamic academic environment. Applicants should have a CS degree or relevant certification and hands-on experience with MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Python, and C++.