Database Reliability Engineer

Associate Engineer - Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE)

Location Colombo Sri Lanka

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About the Role

At Virtusa the Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) which is an extension or subset of the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) model just specializing in database technologies but with the same underlying DevOps principle will be a lead strategic partner in building and maintaining a Database as a Service Platform to help software engineers build deploy and monitor applications with an emphasis on automation. This is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale massively distributed fault-tolerant systems.

At Virtusa DBRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our most critical database platform services and ensures they meet our internal and external users requirements. The hosting platforms will be in Wileys on-prem servers as well as public clouds such as AWS/Azure.

How you will make an impact

• Work on technology initiatives under the supervision of Senior Engineers.
• Applying the Database concepts into practice at enterprise level.
• Building database systems based on the specifications given
• Rolling out defined standards related to Enterprise-scale production relational backends such as Microsoft SQL Server MySQL or Oracle both on-premises and in the cloud (with a particular emphasis on Relational Database Service in Amazon Web Services).
• Involved in building and monitoring CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• Handling housekeeping maintenance tasks such as backup and index rebuilding.
• Using automated repeating database tasks and deployments (such as migrations replication restoring backups and spinning up new clusters)
• Providing production and lower-environment support for assigned applications related to their back-end databases under the guidance of the senior engineers.