GCP Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)

Raas Infotek is seeking a GCP Database Support/Site Reliability Engineer to manage, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native database systems. The role focuses on Cloud Spanner and other GCP database services, production reliability, incident resolution, performance optimization, disaster recovery, architecture collaboration, and operational automation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage GCP database services (Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore)
• Monitor performance, availability, and reliability of production database systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents, ensuring SLA/SLO compliance
• Optimize Cloud Spanner schemas, queries, and instance configurations for scale and cost
• Implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies
• Collaborate with engineering teams on database architecture and migrations
• Automate operational tasks using Terraform/scripting (Python/Bash)

Requirements:

• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Spanner (schema design, performance tuning, monitoring)
• Strong SQL and distributed database concepts (consistency, sharding, replication)
• Experience with GCP IAM, networking, and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Logging)
• Familiarity with incident management and on-call rotations
• GCP Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification
• Experience with Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or AlloyDB
• Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code experience