Site Reliability Engineer – Database

Who We Are

We're a leading, global security authority that's disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands, the world's largest companies, the major cloud providers, entire country financial systems, entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. That's digital trust for the real world.

Site Reliability Engineer (Database)

Location: Bengaluru, India

Hybrid: 3 days onsite & 2 days remote

About Digicert

DigiCert is the world’s premier provider of high-assurance digital certificates. Since our founding we’ve been driven by the idea of finding a better way. A better way to provide authentication on the internet. A better way to tailor solutions to our customers’ needs. A better way to enrich our employees’ lives with opportunities to create the unexpected. Some people just want a job, others want to transform themselves and the connected world we live in. If you’re the latter, join us in finding better ways to help people believe in their digital interactions.

Responsibilities

• Help design, configure, and maintain DataStax Cassandra, MariaDB, MSSQL, Kafka, Elastic Search and Redis.
• Analyze data access patterns and identify hotspots and bottlenecks.
• Design and review data models, and help developers plan high performing queries.
• Define and establish best practices with Cassandra, MariaDB, MSSQL, Kafka, Elastic Search and Redis including configuration, monitoring health and backups of the cluster.
• Manage storage capacity of cluster and plan for growth based on future project goals.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production issues and assume other responsibilities as needed.
• Document design specifications, installation instructions, troubleshooting guidelines and other administration related process and procedures.
• Automate data infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and maintenance processes to improve efficiency.
• Monitor health & performance of data infrastructure and proactively address any issues.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work across multiple functions and collaborate within a team environment.
• Innovative and can solve problems with unconventional techniques. Strong ability to think outside of the box.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in Customer facing high SLA apps or related roles
• 5+ years of experience as Database Admin, data modeling and C/SQL scripting: MariaDB, Casandra, MSSQL, Kafka, Elastic Search & Redis
• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms : OCI, AWS, Azure
• 1+ years of experience with Automation: SALT, Ansible, K8’s, Docker, and Jenkins
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and business functions
• Strong analytical skills to determine effective approaches to business solutions
• Support on-call and maintenance window’s during off hours and weekends