Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MariaDB is a leading database company that impacts various sectors by powering applications used daily. They are seeking a Remote Database Administrator to provide expert-level DBA services, including monitoring, performance recommendations, and architecture design for their SkySQL cloud platform.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- Passion for serving customers and solving technical problems
- Experience with MariaDB/MySQL and surrounding tools
- Knowledge of SQL query writing and optimization
- Knowledge of database design, administration, development or architecture
- Understanding of various high availability environments and technologies
- Very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Tenacity with regard to customer communication & follow-up
- Comfortable working remotely (equipment provided)
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
- Experience with some sort of columnar database platform
- Previous usage of database proxying technology
- Experience in a 24×7 support environment
- Proficient with multiple backup utilities (mydumper, MariaDB Backup, Xtrabackup, mysqldump, etc.)
- Prior MariaDB, Percona, or MySQL support engineer experience
- Previous experience working remotely
- Proficient in one or more scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, etc.)
- Sysadmin experience (Linux, Windows, etc.)
- Working knowledge of other database systems (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres, RDS/Aurora, MongoDB, etc.)
- Contributions to open source software in the MariaDB/MySQL ecosystem
- Experience with other MariaDB products such as MaxScale, ColumnStore, Cluster/Galera, Clustrix, etc
- Proficient with virtualization software (Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, etc.)
- Experience with cloud offerings
- Experience with automation toolsets
- Experience with containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
- MariaDB/MySQL monitoring software experience
- MariaDB and/or MySQL certifications
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life, and disability insurance
- Funds toward professional development resources
- Flexible Paid Time Off (FPTO)
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Massive degree of flexibility and freedom
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