Database Consultant, MySQL

Role Overview

• 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
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 5 Years working in an SRE role, including a minimum of two years verifiable experience working with terraform on AWS in a production environment
• 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

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Docker
• MySQL
• Python
• Shell Scripting
• Terraform
• Unix
• Vault
• Go

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package
• Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity
• Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office!
• Substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified
• Annual budget to personalize your work environment
• Annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more)
• Generous amount of paid vacation and sick days
• Day off to volunteer for your favorite charity