Senior DevOps Database Engineer Ziprecruiter
Santa Monica, CA

Job Description

Summary:

We're looking for an experienced engineer to help us increase the scalability, reliability and change velocity of our current database fleet. We use MySQL technologies on AWS (RDS, Aurora) in a critical high- volume, low- latency environment (We use many others as well¦) We are moving from a world of large numbers of individualized servers to a standardized fleet that is deployed and supported via automation. You will play a critical role in helping us accomplish this goal, as well as helping us revamp our disaster recovery, on call and future technology direction.

Responsibilities:

* Managing and deploying high volume/high transactional MySQL systems
* Helping us scale by standardizing our fleet of mysql instances and automating their deployment/maintenance
* Automation/Configuration Management - Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc
* Lead database upgrade efforts in AWS environment
* Disaster Recovery planning and Implementation
* Define actionable KPIs and configure monitoring/alerting
* Contributing to process improvement
* Document administration and response procedures through runbooks & playbooks

Qualifications:

* 5+ years experience with managing high transaction volume MySQL systems
* Strong aptitude for building robust, automated processes and tools
* Amazon AWS experience, particularly RDS, Aurora
* Experience in a Linux environment, and familiarity writing shell scripts
* Able to troubleshoot and manage production issues
* Ability to code via shell or scripting language such as Python or Perl
* NoSQL databases experience - Dynamo
* Experience with Python or other scripting language
* Amazon RedShift experience - Nice to have
* Experience with Grafana & Graphite
* Experience with DynamoDB, Git, RedShift, Athena, Spark, CloudFormation, Terraform, Perl, Python or Go

Benefits & Perks:

* A fun environment where work-life balance is valued
* Opportunities for advancement as our young startup grows
* Very competitive salary
* Generous bonus plan
* Employer-matched 401(k) plan
* Competitive benefits package
* Healthy snacks
* Local gym discount
* Attractive paid time off policy - Open/Flexible vacation policy

ZipRecruiter is an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V). All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. This organization uses E-Verify.

Category: Computer/Software