Staff Database Reliability Engineer
Rackspace ·
India, Remote
Remote Full-time Senior Engineering
Job Description
- Key Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain SOPs for migration execution.
- Formulate and monitor database management policies, procedures, and standards.
- Provide design standards and guidance for projects and technical roadmaps.
- Mentor and train Level 1 and Level 2 DBAs.
- Engage with customers to streamline project deliverables.
- Forecast database growth and plan for hardware and storage requirements.
- Plan and deploy high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
- Execute database software upgrades, patches, and service packs.
- Investigate and resolve complex database-related issues.
- Develop automation tools to streamline tasks.
- Set up monitoring and alerting systems.
- Generate performance reports and analysis.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation of database configurations.
- Resolve incidents, changes, and service requests under client SLAs.
- Create detailed RCA reports for problem management.
- Evaluate and manage third-party tools for database management.
- Participate in sales implementations and vendor calls.
- Provide 24×7 production support for database operations.
- Execute large, complex database projects.
- Knowledge and Skills:
- Proficient in SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL for architecture, installation, configuration, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Experience in planning and executing database migrations and upgrades.
- Cloud-enabled for project-based migrations, automation, and administration.
- Familiarity with industry best practices for database administration.
- Effective communication of technical information.
- Leadership skills for unexpected situations.
- Experience with automation using Python, AWS CLI, PowerShell, Shell.
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, Terraform, GitHub.
- Ability to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot HADR configurations.
- Knowledge of deploying and managing RDBMS in cloud platforms.
- Understanding of monitoring tools like Datadog, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch.
- Usage of ITIL-based ticket tools like ServiceNow.
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