Job Description

You will assess the database estate, define target architecture and measurable goals, and execute the roadmap hands-on with the team. You will investigate MariaDB failures and performance limits, improve reliability and disaster recovery, build database automation, advise application teams, mentor engineers and take part in on-call.

Responsibilities

Review the database estate for reliability, scale, cost and complexity
Define target architecture and a prioritised roadmap
Execute migrations and scaling work with benchmarks and rollback plans
Investigate MariaDB failures and performance limits
Improve observability, backup, restore and disaster recovery
Build production software for provisioning, upgrades and maintenance
Advise application teams on schemas, transactions and queries
Mentor engineers
Participate in on-call and incident response

Requirements

8+ years operating