Sr Database Engineer
Sr Database Engineer
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Job Description
What you get to do in this role:
- We are an escalations team in Operations that primarily works on databases performance infrastructure scalability & innovate solutions
- Diagnose and resolve complex database performance issues across PostgreSQL and MySQL and provide RCAs
- Perform query optimization indexing and database configuration adjustments to ensure optimal response times and resource utilization.
- Proactively monitor and analyze database workloads identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements to developers and other teams.
- Perform MariaDB/MySQL to Postgres migrations.
- Provide on-call support during weekends on rotational basis.
- Youll get an opportunity of leading individual projects including driving project outcomes & delivering technical solutions for complex business needs.
- Work with cross functional teams pursue to the resolution of bugs identified.
- Proactive monitoring of customer infrastructure to avoid any P1/P2 escalations.
- Ensure that MTTR (Mean Time To Resolve) of any issues stays within SLA
- Deep dive on Database and ServiceNow Platform performance bottlenecks by utilizing performance engineering tools
Qualifications :
To be successful in this role you have:
- 5 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator or Database Operations Engineer with a strong focus on PostgreSQL and MySQL in production or business critical environments.
- Expertise in database architecture indexing query tuning performance optimization high-availability solutions and regular DB administration activities such as schema tablespace and backup/recovery management.
- 3 years of experience providing support on a SaaS PaaS or Cloud Infrastructure product/solution
- Proven experience with concurrency multithreading and distributed system architectures
- Hands-on experience with database monitoring tools and setting up effective alerts.
- Experience in data mining tool such as Splunk Grafana or ELK stack tool.
- Unix skills: including development navigation file manipulation permissions searching/finding files and text contents and administrative actions
- Develop and implement automation scripts (e.g. Python Bash) for routine operational tasks deployments and health checks.
- Strong experience with application/database performance engineering tools (pgbench sysbech mysqlslap jmeter flamegraph) is highly preferred.
- Experience with ServiceNow platform scripting tuning troubleshooting is highly preferred.
- Formal experience on a DevOps support or Operational team is desired.
- Experience in supporting large scale web-based distributed application running on JVM/Apache/Tomcat is preferred
Additional Information :
Work Personas
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Equal Opportunity Employer
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Accommodations
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
