Senior SQL & Hosted Services Engineer

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) + match

Paid holidays & PTO

Wellness programs

Job summary

Bloomberg's Corporate Technology Group designs, deploys and supports Bloomberg's platforms and systems used by more than 21,000 employees across 170+ offices worldwide.

The Senior SQL & Hosted Services Engineer role focuses on maintaining Bloomberg's globally distributed SQL databases and hosting platforms, driving reliability, automation, and operational excellence across compute, storage, and virtualization services.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

SQL Server

PowerShell

Python

Automation

Networking

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/IT or equivalent

Tools

HPE OneView

SCCM

Backup Software

Windows Deployment Tools

Job description

Description

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.

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10052871

Description & Requirements

Description

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.

We'll trust you to

• 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.

You'll need to have

• 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

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

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.

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