PointClickCare is a leading health tech company focused on delivering exceptional care through innovative solutions. The Senior Database Reliability Engineer will manage and optimize the cloud-based database infrastructure for their SaaS application, working closely with engineering and SRE teams to enhance performance and availability.

Responsibilities:

Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure desired database objectives are met
Work with DBA team to understand areas of toil. Implement automations\processes to help manage PCC's database systems at scale
Implement a data-driven approach to performance and availability improvements to stakeholder database systems
Provide database expertise to engineering and SRE teams (review of database migrations, queries, performance optimizations, standardize configurations and deployments of new database systems)
Assist DBA team in performance troubleshooting and root cause analysis

Requirements:

7+ Years working with relational databases systems (3+ at a Senior, lead or architect level)
2+ years in a DBRE or SRE role
Experience working in the cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
Coding Automation Experience
Experience working with IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform
Experience working with source control such as GIT
SQL Server experience preferred, MySQL, PostgreSQL nice to haves
Experience working with VLDBs (1+ TB) and managing a large number of databases (100+)
Languages such as Powershell, C#, SQL, Python
Some on-call or after-hours work will be required
Additional experience with the following tools\systems a plus: Git, Jira, Azure Data Factory, DataBricks, Grafana, InfluxDB and flavors of NoSQL databases

Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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