Database Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Database Reliability Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA 95110 (Hybrid)

Duration: 2 months, possible extension

Contract Type: W2 only

Pay Rate Range: $88.02/Hour

Intelliswift Software Inc. conceptualizes, builds, and supports the world's most amazing technology products and solutions. Our team of rich experts from diverse backgrounds contributes to making Intelliswift one of the most reliable partners in IT and Talent solutions. We specialize in delivering world-class Digital Product Engineering, Data Management and Analytics, and Staffing Solutions services to Fortune companies, SMBs, ISVs, and fast-growing startups.

Job Responsibilities

• Work on reliability and performance aspects for core database infrastructures that allow client's products to scale.
• Ensure the highest level of uptime and Quality of Service (QoS) for client's critical database environments through operational excellence.
• Implement solutions for automating deployment, provisioning and managing large-scale database environments.
• Improve observability by implementing smart monitoring, tracing, and logging.
• Act as main point of contact for production incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify, and resolve underlying problem patterns, while working towards developing automated and self-healing solutions

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field
• At least 7 years relevant production experience in supporting at scale, highly available, mission-critical database environments. Deep understanding in all areas such as database backups, replication, security, DevOps for databases (IaC, CI/CD), observability, and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency in at least two of the following open-source database management systems: MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL
• Experience working with hyper-scale cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure, GCP) and running at scale database environments on virtual computing environments (Amazon EC2, Azure VM)
• Experience with Cloud database technologies such as AWS RDS, AWS Keyspaces, Azure SQL/CosmosDB, MongoDB Atlas, and Datastax Astra.
• Database migration experience
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Terraform
• Deep understanding of cluster management areas, such as scaling, consistency tuning, replication, and multi-datacenter configuration
• Experience in performance monitoring, storage performance optimization, tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexes
• Strong data modeling and data structure design skills
• Exposure to containerization platforms (Kubernetes/Docker)
• Good understanding of Linux OS concepts
• Proficiency in any of the scripting language (Python /Perl/ Ruby)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Intelliswift celebrates a diverse and inclusive workforce. We offer equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expressions, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected basis under the law.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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Learn More

For information on Intelliswift Software, Inc., visit our website at www.intelliswift.com.