Assist in the design, configuration, and maintenance of Oracle and SQL databases while optimizing performance and ensuring reliability through practical skills and training in database administration.

• 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

• Serve as the Oracle database authority for the product, advising development teams on SQL/PLSQL optimization, schema design, and built-in database tuning • Design and maintain database monitoring and observability, leveraging Oracle diagnostic and monitoring tools • Proactively identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues • Lead advanced troubleshooting of complex database problems (performance degradation, locking, contention, resource exhaustion) • Define and enforce database best practices and operational standards • Work directly with customers to monitor, tune, and optimize on-premises/private cloud Oracle instances • Collaborate with support and consulting teams; occasional on-site customer work may be required

• Manage Oracle databases across development, testing and production environments • Configure and maintain database systems to ensure high performance, availability and security • Monitor database health and proactively identify and resolve issues • Analyse and troubleshoot database issues, providing end-to-end resolution • Automate and improve routine database processes and maintain accurate documentation • Support product and development teams with query optimisation and schema design • Perform database backup, restore and recovery activities • Support release deployments and scheduled maintenance, including out-of-hours work where required • Provide on-call support for critical production systems as needed • Share knowledge and provide technical mentoring to team members • Cross-train and provide support for MSSQL database environments