- Ensure database infrastructure is up-to-date with the latest technology trends and security patches.
- Develop and maintain documentation regarding database configurations, architectures, and procedures.
- Serve as the point of contact for database-related queries and technical support.
- Learn from alerts. After an event, we learn from it, continuously improving our infrastructure, monitoring, or applications to keep the same issue from ringing alarms again.
- Build visualizations of our data to understand the performance of our systems and recommend improvements to remove bottlenecks and points of failure.
- Anticipate and proactively address security concerns from both process and technology standpoints.
- Participate in the incident response (on-call) rotation.
WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING WITH:
- Stack: Kubernetes, Docker, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Redis
- Tooling: Terraform, Jenkins
- Hosting: AWS (RDS and Aurora)
- Monitoring: DataDog
- Databases: RDS and containerized (mostly PostgreSQL)
WHAT YOU’LL BRING:
- Extensive experience in doing integration testing across large applications to ensure data integrity across multiple systems.
- Experience automating database administration tasks.
- Experience managing databases in a high volume, mission-critical environment, to include:
