Staff Database Reliability Engineer - (PostgreSQL + Cloud)
- Rackspace Technology
- 8 - 11 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 20 hours ago
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Job Description
What Were Looking For
- Somone who can work from office ( Hyderabad location )
- 8-10+ years in DBA / Platform Engineering
- Strong multi-cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP at least two)
- Deep HA/DR & performance tuning expertise
- Automation-first mindset (Terraform, scripting, CI/CD)
- Experience in SaaS/DBaaS environments preferred
For a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in a DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) support role, the following mandatory skills are typically required:
1. Database Administration (DBA) Skills
- Primary Database: PostgreSQL
- Secondary Database: MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server
- Database Backup & Recovery: Tools and strategies for database backups and disaster recovery.
- Performance Tuning: Query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance troubleshooting.
- Database Security: User management, roles, access control, and auditing.
2. Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge (DBaaS)
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora), Azure (Cosmos DB, SQL Database), GCP (Cloud SQL, Firestore).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes.
- Kubernetes & Containers: Running databases in containers (like Kubernetes).
- Observability Tools: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Database Migration: Migrating databases across different platforms or cloud environments.
- Database Scaling: Vertical and horizontal scaling techniques in cloud environments.
3. SRE Principles (Site Reliability Engineering)
- Incident Management: Handling database outages, incident response, and on-call rotations.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch.
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensuring uptime and performance targets.
- Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions.
4. Scripting and Automation
- Scripting Languages: Python, Shell scripting, Bash, PowerShell.
- Automation Tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
- Infrastructure Automation: Automating database deployment, patching, and scaling.
5. Networking and Infrastructure
- Networking Basics: TCP/IP, DNS, Firewall, Load Balancers.
- Database Connectivity: Connection pooling, failover strategies, and multi-region deployment.
- Storage and Disk Management: Understanding IOPS, latency, and throughput.
6. OS Skills
Expertise in Linux OS ( RHEL, UBunto, Centos)
- Understanding of file systems (ext4, XFS, etc.), permissions, and ownership (chmod, chown, ACLs).
- Knowledge of process monitoring, management, and troubleshooting (ps, top, htop, kill, pkill, etc.).
- Proficiency with tools like top, htop, vmstat, iostat, sar, and dstat to monitor CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network usage.
- Ability to analyze system logs (/var/log/, journalctl, dmesg) for troubleshooting.
- Understanding of resource limits (CPU, memory, disk, network) and how they impact database performance.
- Knowledge of partitioning tools (fdisk, parted) and file system management (mkfs, mount, umount).
- Understanding of RAID configurations and Logical Volume Management (LVM) for storage scalability.
- Understanding of RAID configurations and Logical Volume Management (LVM) for storage scalability.
7. Troubleshooting and Debugging
- Log Analysis: Reading and analysing database and system logs.
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Performing in-depth analysis after major incidents
- Query Performance: Analysing slow queries, deadlocks, and resource contention.
8 . Soft Skills
- Communication Skills: Clear communication with stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Problem-Solving: Ability to troubleshoot complex database issues under pressure.
- Collaboration: Working closely with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the worlds leading technologies across applications, data and security to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
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Industry: Oil & GasFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: DevOpsRole: Site Reliability EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Rackspace TechnologyLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: kubernetes iostat networking artificial intelligence dr ansible cloud postgresql gcp linux cloud computing python cyber security performance tuning cpu microsoft azure engineering machine learning database administration o puppet high availability terraform bash aws
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