About Us

Matson has been the leading ocean shipping and logistics provider throughout the Pacific since 1882. We are the supply chain lifeline for Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and islands of the South Pacific. We also offer the top two ocean shipping services in the world's largest trade lane - Asia to the U.S. West Coast. With our subsidiaries Matson Terminals and Matson Logistics, our business focus is exceeding customer expectations with quality, reliability, and integrity.

We strive to operate in an environmentally sustainable manner and promote land-based environmental programs in Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska. We help improve the communities in which we work and live through our community giving program that annually supports hundreds of local organizations. And we work to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in our company, communities and industry through an active social equity program.

Matson is a great place to work, and everyone who works with us becomes part of the Matson ohana or family. Join our team and help us move freight better than anyone.

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About the Role

The Senior Database Administrator is a member of the Database Administration team within IT Services. The individual participates in the design, testing, implementation, maintenance, and 24x7 support of the organization's databases across multiple platforms and computing environments; participates in data recovery and data integrity checks; supports the production operations and applications development teams; assists with the installation of other software as needed; and completes required logs and reports of maintenance activities. The individual participates in the development of database management policies and standards; provides in-depth consulting services in the identification and resolution of database issues; and participates in the planning, design, and usage of data resources. The individual is responsible for adhering to Matson's standards and would participate in incorporating industry and security best practices into database administration and management activities. This individual is expected to have a good understanding of Matson's operations procedures and business applications; and be responsible for maintaining documentation and implementing processes that meet the IT general control normative model to ensure SOX compliance. The incumbent is expected to learn the business practices of his or her customers within all business units and implement appropriate database support solutions and processes to meet business requirements.

What you'll do:

• Work as a general administrator providing support of Production, Pre-Production, QA, Development databases and data warehouses on web, on premise and cloud infrastructures.
• Responsible for database, data mart, data warehouse, and reporting (canned/ad hoc business intelligence) administration.
• Work with the Architecture, Development, QA, Production Operations, Information Security, Infrastructure and related teams to implement and support Matson systems.
• Responsible for database, web and cloud infrastructure installations, configurations, patches and other related activities.
• Responsible for database backups and restores, monitors, and optimizes the usage of database resources, servers and services.
• Initiate corrective action to ensure all database services meet processing requirements for performance and reliability.
• Provides database services support to in-house and remote users.

You have these skills:

• Full lifecycle development experience.
• Extensive experience developing in one or more of the following:
  • successful history of acting as Database Administrator on full lifecycle application development and data warehouse projects.
  • data management techniques including logical data modeling, physical database optimization, data distribution, and database performance monitoring.
  • knowledge of Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server Databases, NoSQL in Linux (RHEL), JBoss/OpenJDK/Tomcat and Windows environments.
  • knowledge of Shell Scripting, SQL, file transfer tools in a Linux/Windows environment.
  • knowledge of DB Design tools such as Embarcadero E/R Studio.

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Analytical - Collects information to analyze a problem in order to determine the best solution.
• Problem Solving - Able to debug operation problems of significant complexity within a timely manner. Apply efficient solutions to problems.
• Task Management - Organizes tasks and communicates changes and progress to immediate supervisor. Prioritizes work activities and uses time efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Customer Service - Responsive to production problems identified by the system user. Responds promptly and with a sense of urgency in order to minimize system downtime.
• Interpersonal Skills - Communicates well, both verbally and in writing, with peers, management and the business community. Able to articulate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Teamwork - Performs as an active participant of the team and contributes to building a positive team spirit. Works collaboratively with other members of the development team, other IT Services teams and business stakeholders.
• Ethics - Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and ethically and upholds organizational values.
• Motivation - Sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles. Maintains currency in technology and development techniques.
• Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner and reacts well under pressure.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in resultant work products; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Quantity - Maximizes productivity; completes work in timely manner; strives to increase productivity; takes the initiative to ask for additional tasks when assignments are complete.
• Dependability - Follows direction, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions.
• Innovation - Meets challenges with resourcefulness and uses creativity when solving problems.

And these qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S) from a four-year college or university education or equivalent technical certification is desirable.
• Eight (8) or more years of related work experience desirable.
• Proven troubleshooting abilities and experience in applying upgrades/patches on production environments.
• Experience in rolling out new systems into production as well as upgrading production systems while maintaining availability in an enterprise environment.

Extra credit if you have:

• Extensive experience developing in one or more of the following is hiring desirable:
  • Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Cloud Database Services such as AWS RDS.
  • Knowledge of open source NoSQL DBs (MongoDB, HBase) or AWS DynamoDB.
  • Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau and Splunk.
  • Knowledge of Data Science Platforms such as Alteryx and Knime.
  • Knowledge of open source Big Data and Data Lake frameworks such as Hadoop, Hive, and Parquet.
  • Knowledge of Python (or comparable) programming language in Automation and Analytics ETL processing.
  • Knowledge of open source ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Stack (or comparable) utilities.
  • Knowledge of open source Spark (or comparable) Real-Time Streaming Analytics.
  • Knowledge of open source TensorFlow (or comparable) Machine Learning Platform.
  • Knowledge of serverless computing platforms such as AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Container Service.

At Matson, we're looking for people to build a unified team to maintain our values of trust, integrity, and reliability. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and thoughtfully challenge assumptions.

#MI

Matson is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, AIDS/HIV status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, including, but not limited to, the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.