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Database Reliability Engineer
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[Hiring] Database Reliability Engineer @Rackspace
Mar 19, 2025 - Rackspace is hiring a remote Database Reliability Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: $116,100-$198,400. đź“ŤLocation: USA.
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Role Description
We are seeking a skilled Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with expertise in MongoDB to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance, scalability, and reliability of our database infrastructure. You will work closely with development, SRE, and DevOps teams to optimize database operations, automate processes, and proactively resolve issues.
- Design, maintain, and optimize MongoDB clusters for high availability and performance.
- Implement database monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation strategies.
- Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to integrate databases into CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure database security, backup, and disaster recovery best practices.
- Troubleshoot database performance issues and optimize queries and indexes.
- Develop automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions for database operations.
- Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning.
Qualifications
- A Highschool Diploma or equivalent is required.
- A Bachelor's degree in software development, database programming, or computer engineering is preferred.
- 5+ years in an SRE position managing database workloads (preferably MongoDB workloads) or 5+ years in a developer position with advanced MongoDB knowledge.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of MongoDB indexes, index management, integrity checks, and statistics.
- Understand query plans to troubleshoot performance issues.
- Knowledge of CRUD syntax and Aggregation Framework.
- Understanding of replication, vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, and DR.
- Expert skill in MongoDB server 6.0, 7.0 & 8.0.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of database automation, ideally with Python and/or Ansible.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Excellent communications skills; written, verbal, and presentation.
- Ability to apply varying leadership skills and traits that create solutions and results to unexpected situations.
- Experience with automation frameworks.
- Experience with Python and/or Ansible or equivalents.
- MongoDB (Configure, Tune, Upgrade, Recovery).
- Experience with MongoDB Sharding.
- Experience with MongoDB Query and Index Tuning.
- Experience with MongoDB Replication.
Benefits
- On-Call Rotation is required with the possibility during holidays as required by the business for 24/7 support.
- Occasional Travel, less than 10%.
- This role is not sponsorship eligible. Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in the US for any employer.
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$116,100-$198,400
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USA
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Posted
Mar 19, 2025
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