Position: Database Reliability Engineer
Company: Luxoft
Category: SQL
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Project Description:
Database Reliability Engineer responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of Database Products managed by Hosting Services.
The role need to adopt software engineering practices to view ops as engineering problem and enhance resiliency of the application or product on various parameters listed above.
The role is also expected to automate the TOIL for efficiency, enhance customer experience on delivery of the Database Services and reduce MTTR on any outages..
Responsibilities:
 Apply a broad range of engineering practices with a focus on reliability, from instrumentation, performance analysis, and log analytics to automated testing, deployment, and operations
 Minimize the risk and impact of failures by engineering operational improvements, such as predictive monitoring, auto scaling or self-healing
 Respond to production incidents to gain first-hand experience of operational hotspots and to identify the root causes of problems
 Taking part in on-call duties, operations, software development, and support, gaining substantial historical knowledge to ensure a seamless flow of information between teams.
 Collect and analyze operational data, define and monitor key metrics to identify and communicate areas for improvement
 Ensuring that Ops professionals and product managers are reviewing incidents and documenting the findings to enable informed decision-making.
Based on post-incident reviews, will need to optimize overall process of delivery, monitoring and controls to boost service reliability.
 Ensure the quality, security, reliability, and compliance of our solutions by applying our digital principles and implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
 Learn new technologies and practices, reuse strategic platforms and standards, evaluate options, and make decisions with long-term sustainability in mind
 Work in an agile way as part of multi-disciplinary teams, participate in agile ceremonies, and collaborate with engineers and product managers.
 Understand, represent, and advocate for client needs
 Share knowledge and expertise with colleagues, help with hiring, and contribute regularly to our engineering culture and internal communities
Mandatory Skills Description:
-5+ years technical experience in RDBMS / NoSQL Database Products on Hybrid infrastructure including Public Cloud. Experience on Azure Cloud Databases is an added advantage.
o Administration and provisioning
o Performance Tuning and Capacity Management
o Backup, DR, Replication and HA
-Experience with common SRE tools such as Configuration, Alerting, Observability.
-Experience with the software development life cycle, CI/CD, GIT, and code build pipelines. Hands-on experience on Gitlab is an added advantage.
-Hands-on experience on writing automation script using Python / Golang, PowerShell / Bash, etc. for on-premise as well as Public Cloud workloads.
-Familiar with infrastructure as code tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM)
-Familiar with Azure Automation, Function or equivalent tools in other Cloud Platforms.
-Strong communication and collaboration skills
-Self-driven, passionate professional with minimal need of supervision