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Database Administrator – Cloud
Location
Tennessee
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Database Administrator – Cloud
MariaDB
• 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 • Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs shift preferred • Ability to travel internationally for company-related meetings
Job 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
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Funds toward professional development resources
- Flexible Paid Time Off (FPTO)
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
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