Senior Cloud Engineer

We need you to:

Own our SQL database systems and meet critical quality, availability, performance and reliability goals

Design and build the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes related to the operation of our databases and integration with Site Reliability capabilities

Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture

Build automation using industry tools (like Jenkins, Ansible,etc)

Be proficient in one or more cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP

Identify bottlenecks and problems throughout the infrastructure

Drive projects/technical initiatives and architectural/technical service improvements

Have 5+ years of SQL Server database administration experience

About you:

You are a senior software engineer with significant experience with SQL databases who knows how to apply engineering principles to operations. You are well versed in a number of database technologies and welcome new tools and techniques. You work in conjunction with fellow developers and operations members to come to the best possible solution. You are always looking for patterns and ways to increase efficiency, eliminate downtime, optimize costs, and maintain performance at scale. You work to provide hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, secure and optimize Cloud services.

You will be successful in this role if you:

Have industry DBA experience with managing large multitenant database clusters, preferably MSSQL

Prefer to build automation to perform redundant tasks rather than manually handling toil

Design solutions with failure in mind to ensure reliability

Enjoy working with a large variety of services and technologies

Avoid logging into servers directly and prefer using automation and aggregation to manage them

Strive to be a responsible enabler rather than a "gate"

Bonus points for:

2+ years of experience with additional database technologies like Cosmos, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS, Hadoop, MySQL, etc.,