Senior Database Administrator Core Infrastructure
You will scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters, strengthen availability, recovery, and backup procedures, and automate database workflows. You will improve observability, security, and deployment practices; partner on database performance and hygiene; and participate in an on-call rotation.
Responsibilities
- Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters
- Strengthen high availability, disaster recovery, and backup procedures
- Automate database operations and workflows
- Improve observability and alert quality
- Enhance database security and access controls
- Contribute to containerized, infrastructure-as-code, and reproducible deployment initiatives
- Partner with service teams on performance, operational readiness, and database hygiene
- Participate in on-call rotations
Requirements
- 5+ years operating MariaDB or MySQL in high-volume production environments
- Database tuning
- Replication
- Troubleshooting
- High availability
- Distributed database
- HAProxy
- ProxySQL
- MaxScale
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Cloud computing
- Linux
- Networking
- Container
- Kubernetes
- Security
- Access control
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Incident response
- Documentation
- KPI
