SDE-II (Senior Database Reliability Engineer)

What’s in it for you?

•  Having worked on MySQL as a primary database, expected experience on :
• Performance Tuning and Capacity Management.
• Backup, DR, Group Replication, and HA.
• Monitoring and observability (Monitoring tools like Datadog & Garafana).
• Experience in Infrastructure automation (Terraform/Ansible).
• Understand database best practices.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage and enhance our IaC tools and pipelines for database deployment, recovery, backup, and migration across all databases
• Performance Monitoring: Develop and maintain instrumentation and dashboards to ensure the performance and reliability of our databases.
• Proactive Health Audits: Regularly audit database health metrics to prevent production outages and plan for scaling and maintenance activities.
• Access Control: Establish, manage, and enforce access control, roles, and permissions for database users and applications.
• AWS Cloud Management: Monitor and automate AWS cloud notifications, including database updates, upgrades, EC2 maintenance, and node failover.
• Security Oversight: Own and implement security measures to harden database nodes and access.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with other teams to support database operations, migrations, client upgrades, and performance optimization.
• Performance Metrics: Generate reliable metrics for database performance, compliance, and SLAs on a regular basis.
• Cost Reporting: Create, maintain, and review reports and dashboards detailing overall database costs and costs per service and team.
• Reliability Tools: Design, develop, and build tools to enhance the reliability, availability, and scalability of our database infrastructure.
• Resilience Enhancements: Design and implement enhancements to production systems, prioritizing resilience to achieve and exceed Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Infrastructure Automation: Automate key infrastructure components to streamline operations.
• Architectural Leadership: Influence, design, and introduce new standards and methods for large-scale enterprise systems.

We’d love to hear from you, if you:

• Have 4-8 years of hands-on experience in managing and provisioning on-prem MySQL databases. 
• Possess proficiency in AWS cloud platform services and features.
• Have Knowledge of or willingness to learn additional database platforms such as Postgres, Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka.
• Obtain Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and clients.
• Own a customer-centric mindset to understand and meet the needs of our clients.