Summary - Site Reliablity Engineer (For one of the Big 4 Sports &Entertainment League)
Our client is enhancing the landscape of the live sports and entertainment
industry. They are striving to deliver innovative, cutting-edge technologies to enable safe,
unforgettable fan experiences across the globe. They are assembling a world-class technology team to build and support platforms and products that anticipate these emerging opportunities.
The Data(base) Reliability Engineer will join the infrastructure team while also working
alongside league team members and be responsible for the following areas:
- Uptime, High Availability and Disaster recovery planning
- Incident response
- Optimization of data stores
- Identify SLIs and define SLOs
- Observability tooling
- Debugging running systems and providing tools to assist runtime debugging
- Optimizations for cost control
- Ability to interface with all levels of employees
- Ability to work both independently with little supervision and in a team environment
- Ensures availability, security, integrity, and recovery of data, pipelines and data stores.
- Define and configure relevant database metrics to ensure observability
- Create and maintain dashboards and reports to visualize database performance and health
- Create monitoring and alerting to trigger on error conditions, degradation symptoms and defined
- SLOs, as well as outages
- Develops and implements data store maintenance plans, including performing integrity checks,
- Updating statistics and monitoring security and hardware resource utilization
- Work with peers to roll out changes to production environments and help mitigate and prevent
- Data-related production incidents
- Work on automation of data store infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing
self-service tools
- Resolves performance, capacity, replication, and other distributed data, pipeline and data store issues
- Support and debug data production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Provide timely incident response and participate in on-call rotations
- Continuously identify opportunities for process improvement and automation to enhance
database performance, reliability, and efficiency
- Prioritize unblocking your teammates, collaboration and knowledge sharing
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the Duties and Responsibilities (Duties) above satisfactorily and meet the requirements below. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Education and/or Experience: Required:
- Minimum of a bachelor s degree in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and five (5) years of relevant experience including software or reliability engineering, database administration, datastore programming experience or combination of education, training and experience.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively strong opinions on how to use technologies such as cloud, microframeworks, DevOps, automation, and observability tools
- Demonstrable experience engineering automation of triggers, alerts, and remediation
- Have written code in a compiled language that runs in production somewhere
- Experience in Oracle 19c, Postgres, Mongo, Change Data Capture, data and data store monitoring, management and support
- Experience with OLTP, OLAP as well as PL/SQL code development and tuning
- Experience in Linux OS and shell scripting
- Extensive experience in performance tuning and analysis
- Strong ITIL principles are a plus
- Capacity planning for all aspects of a data store system (storage, compute, memory, etc.)
- Understanding of networking and connectivity and how it relates to a data store environment
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work non-standard shifts including nights and/or weekend on-call responsibilities
- Dedicated to continuous improvement of yourself and our SRE/DBRE capabilities
- Key Technical Traits
- APIs and microservices: REST, Web, Graph
- Database Solutions Oracle, MYSQL, MSSQL, CloudSQL, NoSQL
- Cloud Providers: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS
- Real-time log/event monitoring DataDog, Stackdriver, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Cloud
- Monitoring, SolarWinds, Splunk, SumoLogic, OpenTelemetry
- Scripting: PL/SQL, Shell
- Secured Access and control Okta SSO and MFA, MS Active Directory, DataSafe
- Software Development tools Jira, GIT, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform
- Compliance: PCI DSS, SSAE18/SOC 1