{"id":2815724,"url":"https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-data-engineer","title":"Data Engineer","company":{"id":18409,"name":"United Airlines","domain":"united.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/united","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Schema","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":99,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.214,"repost_share":0.071,"time_to_fill_p50_days":7,"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Gurgaon, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":13500,"max_usd":35000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":21},"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-18T13:01:34Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-21","last_verified_at":"2026-10-22T06:25:30Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.\nDescription\nUnited's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.\nJob overview and responsibilities\nSQL Server Database Administrator with hands on experience in managing, maintaining, and supporting Microsoft SQL Server Databases. The individual will be responsible for database administration, performance optimization, backup and recovery, high availability, security, monitoring, and production support.\nSQL Server Administration & MaintenanceInstall, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SQL Server environments.\nManage database health, maintenance tasks, SQL Server Agent jobs, indexes, and statistics.\nBackup, Recovery & High Availability\nManage backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery strategies.\nSupport Always On Availability Groups, failover/failback, and DR activities.\nEPerformance Monitoring & Optimization\nMonitor database performance, blocking, deadlocks, resource utilization, and long-running queries.\nOptimize queries, stored procedures, indexes, and execution plans.\nSecurity & Production Support\nManage logins, users, roles, permissions, and database security.\n• Troubleshoot production incidents, connectivity issues, job failures, and database performance problems.\n\nMigration, Automation & Collaboration\nSupport database migrations, upgrades, and environment refreshes.\nAutomate DBA tasks and collaborate with application and development teams on database-related requirements.\n\nThis position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.\nQualifications\nWhat’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field \n4-5 years of hands-on experience in software development in an Agile environment.\nSQL Server Administration- Strong knowledge of SQL Server administration, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.\n- Good understanding of T-SQL, stored procedures, functions, views, and database objects.\nPerformance Tuning\n- Knowledge of query optimization, execution plans, indexing, statistics, blocking, deadlocks, and performance monitoring.\nBackup, Recovery & HA/DR\n- Hands-on experience with backup/restore and point-in-time recovery.\n- Knowledge of Always On Availability Groups, failover/failback, and replication.\nSecurity & Production Support\n- Knowledge of logins, users, roles, permissions, and database security.\n- Strong troubleshooting skills for production incidents and connectivity issues.\nPostgreSQL - Good to Have\n- Basic knowledge of PostgreSQL administration and troubleshooting.\n\nWhat will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):\nStrong production experience with both PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server.\nThe ideal candidate will also leverage AI capabilities to optimize database performance, automate tuning, or streamline administration workflows.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3456,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Air Transport","Commercial Aviation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-18T13:01:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":83,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.879,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:21","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-data-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-data-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T08:42:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4967,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":18409},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=18409"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Funited-airlines-data-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Funited-airlines-data-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Funited-airlines-data-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/united-airlines-data-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Funited-airlines-data-engineer"}]}