What are the responsibilities and job description for the Database Reliability Engineer position at Software Guidance & Assistance?
Job Details
Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Database Reliability Engineer for a Contract assignment with one of our premier SaaS clients in San Jose, CA. This role is fully onsite 5 days per week.
Responsibilities :
Required Skills:
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
Responsibilities :
- Work on reliability and performance aspects for core database infrastructures that allow products to scale.
- Ensure the highest level of uptime and Quality of Service (QoS) for critical database environments through operational excellence.
- Implement solutions for automating deployment, provisioning and managing large-scale database environments.
- Improve observability by implementing smart monitoring, tracing, and logging.
- Act as point of contact for production incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify, and resolve underlying problem patterns, while working towards developing automated and self-healing solutions
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field
- At least 7 years relevant production experience in supporting at scale, highly available, mission-critical database environments. Deep understanding in all areas such as database backups, replication, security, DevOps for databases (IaC, CI/CD), observability, and disaster recovery.
- Experience working with AWS cloud running at scale database environments on virtual computing environments (Amazon EC2)
- Proficiency in the following open-source database management systems: MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Cloud database technologies such as AWS RDS, AWS Keyspaces
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Terraform
- Experience in performance monitoring, storage performance optimization, tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexes
- Exposure to containerization platforms (Kubernetes/Docker)
- Good understanding of Linux OS concepts
- Proficiency in any of the scripting language (Python /Perl/ Ruby)
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
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