Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for database clusters and their components.
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, performance analysis, and system tuning.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example, through reviews of database migrations, queries, and performance optimizations).
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
• Work with peer SREs to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
• Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Make monitoring and alerting alerts on symptoms and SLOs.
• Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant experience with database services and Cloud services.
• Have Strong experience running MySQL in large production environments.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems (Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, or comparable solutions)
• Demonstrated experience with languages, such as Python, Java, Golang etc.
• Have at least 2 years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
• Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
• Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

Skills

Ansible, Chef, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, Puppet, Redis, Terraform, cloud, database