Sr Database Administrator/Reliability Engineer (DBA/DBRE)

Overview

On Site
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

SQL Server
Oracle
Cassandra
DBA
Troubleshooting
CI
CD
Jenkins
infrastructure
database
Ansible
Terraform
cloud
OCI
AWS
Azure
data dictionary

Job Details

  • Minimum 9+ years of hands on DBA experience in one or many of the following: SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra
  • DBA experience in a SRE environment will be an advantage
  • Experience in Automation/build database by providing self-service tools. analyze and implement solutions for database administration (e.g., backups, performance tuning, Troubleshooting, Capacity planning)
  • Analyze solutions and implement best practices for cloud database and its components.
  • Build and enhance tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows (Jenkins etc.) that provide safe self-service capabilities to the SRE team and software engineering teams
  • Implement proactive monitoring and alerting to detect issues before they impact users. Use a metrics driven approach to identify and root cause performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system
  • Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
  • Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures, and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
  • Monitor database performance, control access permissions and privileges, capacity planning, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required
  • Recommend query and schema changes to optimize the performance of database queries.
  • Have experience with cloud-based environment (OCI, AWS, Azure) as well as On-Premise
  • Have experience with cloud database such as SQL server, Oracle, Cassandra
  • Have experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Jira, Confluence, Ansible, Gitlab, Terraform)