engineering
Added 2 weeks agoStaff Database Reliability Engineer
at Rackspace
Remote
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Execute large, complex database projects.
- Create and maintain SOPs for migration execution.
Requirements
- Critical Competencies : Expertise in SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL for administration and migration.
- Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL/PAAS DB, scripting, and automation.
- Experience in AWS/Azure Cloud environments. Key
- 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.
- Familiarity with industry best practices for database administration.
- 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. About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts.