Senior Data Management Engineer (ANF)
Company: AutoNation
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posted on: July 1, 2025
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Job Description:
AutoNation is one of the largest automotive retailers in the
United States, offering innovative products, exceptional services,
and comprehensive solutions, empowering our customers to make the
best decisions for their needs. With a network of dealerships
nationwide strengthened by a recognized brand, we offer a wide
variety of new and used vehicles, customer financing, parts, and
provide expert maintenance and repair services. Through DRV PNK, we
have raised over $40 million for cancer-related causes,
demonstrating our commitment to making a positive difference in the
lives of our Associates, Customers, and the communities we serve.
So what do you say? Are you ready to be part of something big? This
Data Engineer position is a SQL Server Database Administrator
Operations Position, with a stronger emphasis on the development,
Performance DBA, and familiarity with both Azure and AWS
technologies, MySQL Aurora, Postgres, MongoDB and more are
expected. • Perform risk identification, assessment, remediation,
and performance tuning; conduct user training as required; create
all necessary documentation/SOPs, training material and user
guides; perform mentoring/cross-training for peers; Maintain
skills/capabilities through education/training/hands-on experience.
• Highly experienced in Always on setup and maintenance. •
Experience in managing very large databases. • Design, install,
configure, manage, and maintain Microsoft SQL 2014 to the Latest
2022 servers supporting a variety of systems. • Leads all aspects
of the SQL database infrastructure. Install and configure new MS
SQL Servers instances and configure failover or high availability.
• Develop stored procedures, triggers, functions, extended
events.jobs and maintenance of the data bases including SQL OS
installation and patch management. • Assists multiple teams with
SQL integration. • Increase system performance including hardware,
server configuration changes, or index/query changes. • Document
the company's database environment and provide recommendations for
improvement; implement if approved. • Troubleshoot SQL Server
outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekends. •
Configure SQL Server monitoring tools and utilities to minimize
false alarms. • Deploy database change scripts provided by
third-party vendors. Regularly provide a list of the top 10 most
resource-intensive queries on the server weekly and recommend ways
to improve performance. • Create users and assign permissions based
on requirements. • Linked SQL servers and other databases such as
MySQL, Access, and others as appropriate. • Understand a database
backup and restore strategies via restore, SAN snapshots and other
technologies; document major changes to SQL servers. • Configure
and troubleshoot failover clustering in high availability
operations and recover and restore from backups. • Provide
technical support and offer performance improvement suggestions by
way of code rewrites, index analysis and query refactoring. •
Document changes to systems and all required checklists for use
within the configuration baseline. • Experience with SSIS and SSRS
technologies. Technical Expertise: • Serves as a technical expert
in the administration of one or more database management systems,
providing technical issue resolution and technical coaching to
other staff members. • Expert level proficiency in SQL Server,
MySQL, MongoDB, PostGress, AWS/Azure database services. •
Demonstrates advanced expertise in relevant scripting or
programming languages such as PowerShell/python. • Possesses a
sound understanding of current and future infrastructure and
applications architectures for AutoNation. • Maintains an industry
awareness of new developments in their area of expertise. Learns
and applies new and emerging concepts quickly. • Knowledge of
backup software such as Cohisity/Veritas Netbackup. • Knowledge of
Delphix and HVR is desirable. • Exhibits proficiency in operating
system administration and hardware fundamentals • Proposes and
promotes standards and policies in adherence with data governance
practices. • Demonstrates a broad understanding of the
applications, data, and technical architectures. • Designs and
participates in disaster mitigation and recovery plans for
solutions and databases supported. • Applies advanced expertise
with capacity planning, fault tolerance, high availability, and
disaster recovery. • Designs and implements enterprise level data,
application, and database security layers • Serves as a technical
resource across Technology on data management issues. • Promotes
the reuse of existing data objects and entities across the
enterprise to reduce costs and meet business requirements. •
Establishes and drives consistent standards for data management and
analysis tools and techniques to advise on the applications
development process and to ensure compliance requirements are met.
• Typically provides direction to a team of staff and/or
contractors/consultants in their area of expertise. • Mentors and
develops technical staff in their domain • Exhibits high degree of
technical proficiency in design of database applications and
knowledge of operating interrelationships between databases and the
organization’s other systems, serving as a subject matter expert
and technical resource to others • Possesses a broad understanding
of systems, applications, and uses of data, as well as knowledge of
existing and emerging data modeling approaches and tools. •
Possesses thorough understanding of current and future
infrastructure and database architectures. • Maintains an industry
awareness of new developments in their area of expertise. Learns
and applies new and emerging concepts. • Functions independently
with limited work direction. • Defines and breaks down tasks for
team members, providing technical expertise as appropriate to
deliver results and resolve issues as needed. Exciting Benefits and
Perks Await You: Competitive compensation and 401k matching Enjoy a
healthy work-life balance with insurance plans (health, dental,
vision) and maternity benefits. Associate purchase and discount
programs for new and pre-owned vehicles, services, parts,
collision, accessories, and AutoGear Access amazing deals and
discounts through YouDecide, a website with offers from top
providers and retailers Join our DRVPNK mission to raise and donate
millions of dollars to cancer research and treatment, partnering
with cancer charities nationwide AutoNation is committed to
creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in our
workplace and the services we provide. We welcome candidates from
all backgrounds who are passionate about making a positive impact.
Even if you do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to
apply. Join our team and help us foster a culture of belonging
while contributing to our revolutionary work in the automotive
industry. We value innovation, teamwork, and a commitment to making
a positive impact in the world.
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