Senior DBA -1 (Database Reliability Engineer)

Role overview Design, automate, and operate secure, highly available database platforms in a cloud focused environment. You will combine deep MySQL expertise with infrastructure automation and software engineering practices to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency across mission critical systems.

Responsibilities - Build and optimize MySQL platforms, including replication, backups, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery; regularly test recovery procedures. - Develop automation for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and monitoring. - Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and deliver changes through Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines. - Define reliability objectives and build monitoring, alerts, and dashboards for database health and performance. - Lead incident response and root cause reviews, then implement preventative fixes and self service tooling. - Troubleshoot issues across databases, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure; advise application teams on schemas, queries, capacity, and safe changes.

Requirements - Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance tuning. - Strong Linux troubleshooting skills and familiarity with networking fundamentals such as DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, TLS, and virtual networks. - Ability to build and maintain production automation in a language such as Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, or Bash. - Hands on Terraform and infrastructure as code experience, plus Git and CI/CD workflow experience. - Experience operating databases in cloud environments; knowledge of SRE practices including service objectives, observability, incident management, and postmortems. - Experience with AI assisted engineering tools and the judgment to review and validate generated code.

Nice to have - Microsoft Azure experience; database operations on virtual machines or Kubernetes; or experience building AI assisted automation workflows.