Lead Database Engineer

We are looking for an outstanding Database Engineer with deep knowledge of and experience with a variety of relational and non-relational database technologies in a highly scalable environment. The ideal candidate should demonstrate superb technical competency in delivering mission-critical database platforms and services while ensuring the highest levels of scalability, availability, performance, and security.

Job Responsibilities

- Design, implement and manage database infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud. - Collaborate with developers, network/system engineers, vendors, and support staff in an open and creative environment. - Analyze procedures to control the access and allocation of data - Oversee real-time business metric aggregation, data warehousing and querying, schema and data management, and related duties - Maintain security controls in supported databases - Establish relationships with internal customers and team members to drive collaboration. - Primary owner of 24x7 on-call external DB support team - Database and SQL tuning, including reduction in I/Os, views and triggers. - Creating indexes where required while taking a look at the fill factor for existing ones.

Skills And Qualifications

- Proven experience building and supporting highly available database platforms and services at scale in a fast-paced environment. - Proficient in the following database technologies, MySQL, MongoDB, HBase Experience in performance tuning and optimization using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools. - Proficient at scripting in at least one common scripting language. Experience supporting managed database solutions (AWS RDS, Dynamo DB, AWS Document DB, Firestore). - Experience building/managing database platforms through Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Strong working knowledge of HA/DR best practice architecture. - Strong documentation/training/communication skills. - Optional Skills And Qualifications - Automation using Python , Shell scripts and PowerShell - Automation using Chef/Puppet would be a plus - Experience with config management systems - Strong analytical and problem solving skills - Experience operating under SOX/PCI/PII governance - Experience with Cassandra, Redis and/or Elastic Cache. - Knowledge of Installation, configurations and maintenance of Mysql database. - Experience in Provisioning MySQL instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations. - Handle common database process, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc. Set up monitoring / alarming for production DB environments. - Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options. - Expertise in designing and maintaining MySQL . - Experience in Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, cluster management, Data durability, security, networking, and system crash analysis. - Experience in setting up and operating Highly Available MySQL. - Knowledge of shell scripting. - Experience in working with Percona and innoDB engine.