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Syniti · 15 hours ago

Engineer, Site Reliability

Indiana, United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

9+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Split time equally between operations tickets and project work

Manage backups, restores and disaster recover methodologies

Contribute to performance tuning and other preventative automation strategies to improve uptime proactively.

Design and implement database maintenance strategies to ensure optimal health & performance, eliminate configuration drift.

Development of database automation solutions for the purposes of advanced stored procedure, function and other performance monitoring, alerting

Ongoing development of database self-healing and configuration drift prevention automation to reduce toil

Serve as technical lead for database responsibilities on customer rollouts and other major projects

Create documentation and provide training for database related processes and ops procedures

Work on projects to onboard or develop new features and services related to our database architecture from an operations perspective

Qualification

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PostgreSQLMSSQLAWS RDSAWS Aurora ServerlessPerformance tuningDisaster recoveryAutomation developmentPythonBashMonitoring toolsCI/CD pipelinesTerraformAgile/ScrumTechnical writing

Required

9+ years of experience in job specific skills.

7+ years of experience with SQL and PostgreSQL administration and development

5+ years of experience with AWS RDS and AWS Aurora Serverless architectures along with familiarity with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda) and their integration with PostgreSQL and MSSQL

5+ years of experience with performance tuning and query optimization

3+ years of Python, Powershell, or equivalent automation development experience

3+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting high availability and disaster recovery environments including backup solutions, transaction replication, point in time recovery, and Always-On High Availability.

3+ Experience with solutions for monitoring and alerting of database environments (SentryOne or equivalent tool experience)

Strong knowledge of develops practices and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and other infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform

Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly demanding, dynamic business and cloud operations environment

Understanding of DBRE principles, monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.), and incident response processes

The role requires analytical acumen and solution orientation to probe for understanding and to make appropriate decisions to address the nuances of technical and business challenges to achieve the targeted outcome

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Strong customer service orientation

Excellent communication skills and experience in driving cross department initiatives to obtain organizational objectives & meet customer needs

Strong communication, presentation, business and technical writing skills

The ability to provide excellent customer service as well as manage and build strong relationships both internally and externally

Strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology in business value creating ways

Awareness of emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices and technology

Preferred

AWS experience with RDS and Aurora Serverless solutions is a must.

Preferential consideration will be given to candidates that have experience automating operations tasks using bash, Python, or other equivalent languages.

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment is a plus

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.