Reliability Engineer

Role : Database Reliability Engineer

Location : Zurich, Switzerland

Work model : 3 days WFO/week

Rate : Negotiable

Mandatory Skills: Oracle and PostgreSQL

Years of exp needed:

• 12+years

Your role:

• Would you like to be part of team to influence IT Stakeholders and business partners on cloud offerings and migrate to cloud platform?
• Are you a technology enthusiast ready for a challenging IT career focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Database environment?

We’re looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to:

• Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of Database Products managed by Hosting Services.
• Adopt software engineering practices to view operation as engineering problem and enhance resiliency of the application or product on various parameters listed above.
• Automate the TOIL for efficiency, enhance customer experience on delivery of the Database Services and reduce MTTR on any outages.

Key responsibilities:

• Apply a broad range of engineering practices with a focus on reliability, from instrumentation, performance analysis, and log analytics to automated testing, deployment, and operations
• Minimize the risk and impact of failures by engineering operational improvements, such as predictive monitoring, auto scaling or self-healing
• Respond to production incidents to gain first-hand experience of operational hotspots and to identify the root causes of problems
• Taking part in on-call duties, operations, software development, and support, gaining substantial historical knowledge to ensure a seamless flow of information between teams.
• Collect and analyze operational data, define and monitor key metrics to identify and communicate areas for improvement
• Ensuring that Ops professionals and product managers are reviewing incidents and documenting the findings to enable informed decision-making.
• Based on post-incident reviews, will need to optimize overall process of delivery, monitoring and controls to boost service reliability.
• Ensure the quality, security, reliability, and compliance of our solutions by applying our digital principles and implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
• Learn new technologies and practices, reuse strategic platforms and standards, evaluate options, and make decisions with long-term sustainability in mind
• Work in an agile way as part of multi-disciplinary teams, participate in agile ceremonies, and collaborate with engineers and product managers.
• Share knowledge and expertise with colleagues, help with hiring, and contribute regularly to our engineering culture and internal communities

Key competencies:

• 5+ years technical experience in RDBMS / NoSQL Database Products on Hybrid infrastructure including Public Cloud. Experience on Azure Cloud Databases is an added advantage. Good understanding of cloud computing
• Administration and provisioning
• Performance Tuning and Capacity Management
• Backup, DR, Replication and HA
• Experience with common SRE tools such as Configuration, Alerting, Observability.
• Experience with the software development life cycle, CI/CD, GIT, and code build pipelines. Hands-on experience on Gitlab is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience on writing automation script using Python / Golang, PowerShell / Bash, etc. for on-premise as well as Public Cloud workloads.
• Familiar with infrastructure as code tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM)
• Familiar with Azure Automation, Function or equivalent tools in other Cloud Platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Self-driven, passionate professional with minimal need of supervision
• Nice to have BS degree (in Computer Science or related area) or an equivalent

If interested, or you know someone that could be, please reach out and we can arrange a time to speak?