Site Reliability Engineer – Database

Job Summary

The SRE team in Engineering Organization is looking for a proven SRE with specialization in Cassandra Database Administration to join our team.  This position will have primary responsibility over our Production and Engineering QA Lab environments.  You will be supporting our underlying databases responsible for the SSL and PKI products within DigiCert. You will be involved with design, implementation, and day-to-day maintenance of these systems, including being available for incident related escalations. This role will require an ability to manage many diverse projects and be able to interface with various groups and teams including Architecture, SRE, Production Operation, Networking, and Engineering.

What you will do

• Help design, configure, and maintain Cassandra, MariaDB, MSSQL, & Elastic Search
• Analyze data access patterns and identify hotspots and bottlenecks.
• Design and review data models, and help developers plan high performing queries.
• Define and establish best practices with Cassandra, MariaDB, MSSQL, Kafka, Elastic Search and Redis including configuration, monitoring health and backups of the cluster.
• Manage storage capacity of cluster and plan for growth based on future project goals.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production issues and assume other responsibilities as needed.
• Document design specifications, installation instructions, troubleshooting guidelines and other administration related process and procedures.
• Automate data infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and maintenance processes to improve efficiency. 
• Monitor health & performance of data infrastructure and proactively address any issues. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work across multiple functions and collaborate within a team environment.
• Innovative and can solve problems with unconventional techniques. Strong ability to think outside of the box.

What you will have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in Customer facing high SLA apps or related roles
• 2+ years of experience as Casandra Database Administrator with deep understanding of performance tuning.
• 2+ years of experience in data modelling and C/SQL scripting
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and business functions
• Strong analytical skills to determine effective approaches to business solutions
• Support on-call and maintenance window’s during off hours and weekends

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience with Kafka, Elastic Search, Redis, and MariaDB/MySQL database administration
• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
• 1+ years of experience with Automation: SALT, Ansible, K8’s, Docker, and Jenkins

Benefits

• Generous time off policies
• Top shelf benefits
• Education, wellness and lifestyle support

DigiCert offers a competitive benefits package for all our full-time employees.  If you want to know more about them, please reach out to us at [email protected].

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