Job Description

We are looking for an outstanding Database Engineer with deep knowledge of and experience with a variety of relational and non-relational database technologies in a highly scalable environment. The ideal candidate should demonstrate superb technical competency in delivering mission-critical database platforms and services while ensuring the highest levels of scalability, availability, performance, and security.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage database infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud.
• Collaborate with developers, network/system engineers, vendors, and support staff in an open and creative environment.
• Analyze procedures to control the access and allocation of data
• Oversee real-time business metric aggregation, data warehousing and querying, schema and data management, and related duties
• Maintain security controls in supported databases
• Establish relationships with internal customers and team members to drive collaboration.
• Primary owner of 24x7 on-call external DB support team
• Database and SQL tuning, including reduction in I/Os, views and triggers.
• Creating indexes where required while taking a look at the fill factor for existing ones.

Skills And Qualifications

• Proven experience building and supporting highly available database platforms and services at scale in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in the following database technologies, MySQL, MongoDB, HBase
  Experience in performance tuning and optimization using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Proficient at scripting in at least one common scripting language.
  Experience supporting managed database solutions (AWS RDS, Dynamo DB, AWS Document DB, Firestore).
• Experience building/managing database platforms through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  Strong working knowledge of HA/DR best practice architecture.
• Strong documentation/training/communication skills.
• Optional Skills And Qualifications
• Automation using Python , Shell scripts and PowerShell
• Automation using Chef/Puppet would be a plus
• Experience with config management systems
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience operating under SOX/PCI/PII governance
• Experience with Cassandra, Redis and/or Elastic Cache.
• Knowledge of Installation, configurations and maintenance of Mysql database.
• Experience in Provisioning MySQL instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations.
• Handle common database process, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
  Set up monitoring / alarming for production DB environments.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining MySQL .
• Experience in Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, cluster management, Data durability, security, networking, and system crash analysis.
• Experience in setting up and operating Highly Available MySQL.
• Knowledge of shell scripting.
• Experience in working with Percona and innoDB engine.