Database Administrator – Cloud

Role Overview

• Perform DBA activities remotely with customers around the world
• Automate various DBA tasks
• Set up monitoring and other activities on customer servers
• Perform periodic health checks and reports on customer systems
• Participate in the community by blogging and other social media
• Help the MariaDB team build tools and enhancements around MariaDB
• Help improve practices and common methodologies for the Remote DBA team
• Ability to be on call as needed to guarantee customer SLAs
• Manage SkySQL customers across cloud environments
• Provide coverage during designated schedule

Requirements

• Passion for serving customers and solving technical problems
• Experience with MariaDB/MySQL and surrounding tools
• Knowledge of SQL query writing and optimization
• Knowledge of database design, administration, development or architecture
• Understanding of various high availability environments and technologies
• Very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Tenacity with regard to customer communication & follow-up
• Comfortable working remotely (equipment provided)
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• Experience with some sort of columnar database platform
• Previous usage of database proxying technology
• Experience in a 24×7 support environment
• Proficient with multiple backup utilities (mydumper, MariaDB Backup, Xtrabackup, mysqldump, etc.)
• Prior MariaDB, Percona, or MySQL support engineer experience
• Previous experience working remotely
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, etc.)
• Sysadmin experience (Linux, Windows, etc.)
• Working knowledge of other database systems (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres, RDS/Aurora, MongoDB, etc.)
• Contributions to open source software in the MariaDB/MySQL ecosystem
• Experience with other MariaDB products such as MaxScale, ColumnStore, Cluster/Galera, Clustrix, etc.
• Proficient with virtualization software (Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, etc.)
• Experience with cloud offerings
• Experience with automation toolsets
• Experience with containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
• MariaDB/MySQL monitoring software experience
• MariaDB and/or MySQL certifications

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• MariaDB
• MongoDB
• MS SQL Server
• MySQL
• Open Source
• Oracle
• Postgres
• Python
• SQL
• VMware
• Go

Benefits

• 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays)
• Very competitive compensation package
• Equipment provided