We need you to:
Own our SQL database systems and meet critical quality, availability, performance and reliability goals
Design and build the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes related to the operation of our databases and integration with Site Reliability capabilities
Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture
Build automation using industry tools (like Jenkins, Ansible,etc)
Be proficient in one or more cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP
Identify bottlenecks and problems throughout the infrastructure
Drive projects/technical initiatives and architectural/technical service improvements
Have 5+ years of SQL Server database administration experience
About you:
You are a senior software engineer with significant experience with SQL databases who knows how to apply engineering principles to operations. You are well versed in a number of database technologies and welcome new tools and techniques. You work in conjunction with fellow developers and operations members to come to the best possible solution. You are always looking for patterns and ways to increase efficiency, eliminate downtime, optimize costs, and maintain performance at scale. You work to provide hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, secure and optimize Cloud services.
You will be successful in this role if you:
Have industry DBA experience with managing large multitenant database clusters, preferably MSSQL
Prefer to build automation to perform redundant tasks rather than manually handling toil
Design solutions with failure in mind to ensure reliability
Enjoy working with a large variety of services and technologies
Avoid logging into servers directly and prefer using automation and aggregation to manage them
Strive to be a responsible enabler rather than a "gate"
Bonus points for:
2+ years of experience with additional database technologies like Cosmos, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS, Hadoop, MySQL, etc.,
