Cloud Database Administrator II

Responsibilities:

As a key member of the SRE and Cloud Operations team, you will use your database and AWS experience in the following areas:

• Automate the creation of standard database configurations for a wide variety of platforms including Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server
• Maintain, support and upgrade database systems as required
• Work with AWS to coordinate mandatory version upgrades
• Assist development teams with migrations between database platforms e.g. moving Oracle databases to Postgres
• Troubleshoot performance issues and assist development teams with query optimizations
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support rotation
• Manage all capacity decisions for production deployments including technology selection, high availability configuration, storage and compute needs, etc.
• Assimilate knowledge in support of non-relational databases like DocumentDB, Dynamo, Apache Solr, Cassandra, Redis etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree holder (Information Systems, Computer Science/Engineering preferred)
• Atleast 2-3 years of overall DBA experience
• Scripting capability (Python, BASH, etc.)
• Work experience with Oracle database platform, Postgres database a plus
• Experience with automation and IaC tools like CloudFormation and Terraform good to have
• Experience using AWS RDS systems good to have
• Demonstrated experience solving performance and capacity problems AWS certifications are desirable but not a requirement; we will give you the resources required to study and achieve critical certifications as part of your role