Senior Database Administrator Core Infrastructure

You will scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters, strengthen availability, recovery, and backup procedures, and automate database workflows. You will improve observability, security, and deployment practices; partner on database performance and hygiene; and participate in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters
• Strengthen high availability, disaster recovery, and backup procedures
• Automate database operations and workflows
• Improve observability and alert quality
• Enhance database security and access controls
• Contribute to containerized, infrastructure-as-code, and reproducible deployment initiatives
• Partner with service teams on performance, operational readiness, and database hygiene
• Participate in on-call rotations

Requirements

• 5+ years operating MariaDB or MySQL in high-volume production environments
• Database tuning
• Replication
• Troubleshooting
• High availability
• Distributed database
• HAProxy
• ProxySQL
• MaxScale
• CI/CD
• GitOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Cloud computing
• Linux
• Networking
• Container
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Access control
• Observability
• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Incident response
• Documentation
• KPI