[Hiring] Database Consultant, MySQL @Pythian

Role Description

The Site Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in the following key areas of responsibility:

• Ensure services and systems are reliable by focusing on scalability, latency, performance, availability, efficiency, and observability.
• Develop systems and maintain key components to automate and minimize human labor.
• Enhance system reliability while decoupling system size from operational toil and complexity.
• Training and mentoring - both technical and customer satisfaction oriented.
• Thought leadership.

Qualifications

• 5 years of overall experience required as a Database Administrator (DBA) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• Good customer service focus with the ability to handle customer expectations and priorities.
• Demonstrated experience in Object Oriented Programming with Python or Go.
• Tool Stack: Terraform, AWS, Docker, Vault, ProxySQL, and Gitlab.
• Skills: Automation (General), Infrastructure as Code, Python Scripting, Bash shell scripting and Unix system admin.
• Intermediate-level experience with MySQL or other relational database systems.
• Logical and analytical thinking for problem-solving.
• Proven ability to systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations.
• Strong skills in identifying opportunities to improve processes, systems, and structures, enhancing performance through analysis and assessment of existing process flows, methods, and standards.
• Experience in delivering clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience, using appropriate communication mediums and language tailored to the audience.
• Ability to achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable, communicating ideas clearly, and practicing active listening.

Requirements

• Work closely with the customer teams to understand their needs, in both a project based and long term support capacity.
• Monitor and support database environments and serve as an escalation point for complex troubleshooting and interactive production support.
• Identify areas of opportunity and recommend appropriate improvement suggestions.
• Develop readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries.
• Mentor junior team members on code readability and reusability.
• Ensure data security, integrity, and quality by adhering to company standards and best practices.
• Design solutions that fulfill current business requirements and accommodate future enhancements.
• Guide teams to guarantee systems are reusable and interoperable.
• Use best practices to reduce risks to business operations by creating clear documentation like runbooks and operational guides.
• Collaborate with development teams to define and implement relevant observability metrics, with the goal of enhancing application reliability.
• Spearhead incident response for issues impacting their track.
• Leverage new technologies and automation to reduce operational and maintenance costs.
• Eliminate technical debt, identify scaling bottlenecks, and proactively plan for future growth to ensure infrastructure is kept up-to-date.
• Use excellent technical judgement, innovation, and execution to prioritize and solve challenging problems.
• Independently drive business results across multiple teams by either leading high-level architectural decisions or implementing complex components of a project.
• Set technical strategy and define technical roadmaps with cross-team dependencies for business impacting projects, requiring a high level of technical expertise.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package.
• Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office.
• Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
• We provide all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment.
• Annual wellness budget to prioritize your health and well-being.
• Generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.