Consulting/Principal DBA
| Company | RELX |
|---|---|
| Location | Boca Raton, FL, USA, Alpharetta, GA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Possess current experience as a MySQL DBA.
- Experiences with other databases such as MongoDB/CosmosDB, MS SQL a plus.
- Have the ability to demonstrate experience with running Cloud Infrastructure. Azure Cloud experience a plus.
- Experience in query optimization and performance improvement.
- Knowledge of the cloud and managed services such as MS Flex Server or AWS RDS.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools such as Terraform/Terragrunt and GitHub Actions.
- Modern observability/alerting platform experience: Grafana, ELK, DataDog, Splunk, etc.
- Mastery of current DB best practices and design patterns.
- Good conceptual knowledge of OODB’s.
- Automation skills in Bash, Golang, Python a plus.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring data and operational security through secure design, effective access management, and secure storage practices.
- Ensuring reliability through HA, DR implementations and good administration practices.
- Ensuring fast recovery through highly automated and well-tested backup processes.
- Monitoring system performance and identifying problems early by helping to develop high quality monitoring systems.
- Responding in a timely manner to support requests. Reporting on metrics regarding usage and performance.
- Finding ways to improve the reliability, performance, observability, and cost effectiveness of our database assets.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experiences with other databases such as MongoDB/CosmosDB, MS SQL a plus.
- Azure Cloud experience a plus.
- Automation skills in Bash, Golang, Python a plus.