Senior Infrastructure Engineer

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity : We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration : Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment : We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your role:

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead our transition from outsourced database management to an in-house model. This role is critical in stabilizing our legacy Oracle environments while driving our modernization strategy across our multi-cloud footprint. A major focus of this role will be spearheading the architectural shift of our database workloads from Oracle to PostgreSQL. You will serve as the technical lead for critical business systems, architect scalable, cost-effective database solutions, and help us modernize our technology stack.

Here you’ll get to:

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  Database Modernization & Migration: Architect, plan, and execute the complex migration of legacy Oracle workloads to PostgreSQL. Serve as the in-house Subject Matter Expert (SME) for PostgreSQL design, implementation, and administration.



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  Multi-Cloud Infrastructure: Lead the strategy and execution of migrating and managing database workloads in managed cloud services across our multi-cloud environment (heavy emphasis on AWS and GCP, with minor support in Azure).



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  Performance Tuning & Optimization: Analyze complex queries, optimize database server settings across both Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms, and leverage enterprise performance monitoring tools to proactively tune systems.



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  Compliance, Security, & Licensing: Ensure databases comply with strict SOX guidelines. Implement encryption, access controls, and oversee quarterly account reviews. Maintain a general awareness of Oracle licensing and compliance to mitigate financial risks during the transition period.



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  Capacity Planning & DR: Determine and implement robust backup and recovery strategies (RTO/RPO), test automated failover procedures, and automate backup tasks using native cloud tooling.



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  High-Level Support: Provide expert, Level III escalation support for critical production incidents, including after-hours integration support and on-call rotations.

About you:

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  Extensive experience in Oracle Database Administration (11g/12c/19c) across heterogeneous environments (Linux and Windows).



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  High proficiency in PostgreSQL database administration, including hands-on experience migrating enterprise-scale workloads from Oracle to PostgreSQL.



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  Proven track record of managing databases in multi-cloud environments (strong proficiency in AWS and GCP is required; experience with Azure is a plus).



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  Knowledge of or experience managing Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) environments is a strong plus.



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  General understanding of Oracle License Management Services (LMS) and compliance strategies.



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  Experience with enterprise automated job scheduling and database performance monitoring platforms.



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  Deep knowledge of database design, logical data models, and data normalization.

$106,250 - $125,000 a year

Compensation : This position offers a base salary of $106,250 - $125,000 CAD. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a performance based annual bonus.

Vacancy Status : This posting is for an active, existing vacancy.

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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