Database administration for SQL & NoSQL DB (Postgres, Couchbase & Cassandra) running in Kubernetes and Docker. Managing the life cycle of database clusters (Upgrade & Patching). Prioritizing production issues with other internal support teams, support vendors and documenting solutions.
Requirements
- NoSQL Expertise is required (ideally, familiarity with Couchbase and/or CassandraDB)
- Managing Postgres databases in production environment is required
- Experience with managing stateful applications on Kubernetes
- Solid grasp of distributed systems and stateful applications.
- Experienced at leading performance/scale testing and tuning for relational and NoSQL databases
- Good understanding of Linux administration with respect to supporting databases.
- Proficient in Unix shell scripting.
Responsibilities
- Database administration for SQL & NoSQL DB (Postgres, Couchbase & Cassandra) running in Kubernetes and Docker.
- Managing the life cycle of database clusters (Upgrade & Patching).
- Prioritizing production issues with other internal support teams, support vendors and documenting solutions.
- Work with the team’s on-call tier-2/tier-3 break-fix support for production services while adhering to best practices
- Actively facilitate continuous process improvement within the team
- Participate in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of DBA tools to improve performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processes.
- Maintain and continuously improve team’s stateful architecture and systems (legacy and current gen Database-as-a-Service)
Other
- At least 6+ years experience as Database Administrator (DBA)
- Worked on a production database with rotating on-call support.
- Experience engaging with third party vendors for production incidents requiring their support and involvement.
- Sound knowledge of standard methodologies of SDLC as it pertains to data services tasks and schema applications from dev to production roll out.
- Articulate and personable with strong spoken and written language skills.
