Database Reliability Engineer Salla

Responsibilities

• Build database systems of high availability and quality depending on each end user s specialised role
• Design and implement database in accordance to end users information needs and views
• Define users and enable data distribution to the right user, in appropriate format and in a timely manner
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data
• Minimise database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses
• Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users
• Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures and standards
• Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy and integrity
• Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required
• Soft skills: Strong problem solving ability, communication and collaboration skills, and the capacity to operate autonomously and lead incident calls with clarity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data modeling and architecture. Experience designing relational schemas, normalizing data models and planning sharding or partitioning strategies for high volume OLTP systems.
• Advanced security and compliance. Familiarity with encryption at rest/in transit, role based access control, auditing frameworks and compliance standards (ISO, SOC, PCI, etc.).
• Elasticache/Redis expertise. Knowledge of AWS ElastiCache/Redis or similar caching systems to optimize performance and reduce database load.
• CI/CD and DevOps. Experience integrating database changes into CI/CD pipelines and using version control systems (Git) to manage schema migrations.

Hybrid/remote environment. Comfortable working in a hybrid model and collaborating across time zones; able to join on site meetings as needed.

• 8+ years of hands on experience managing production relational databases (preferably MySQL and PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Redis in OLTP environments.
• Proven working experience as a Database Administrator
• Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications
• Excellent knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity and SQL
• Previous experience with database design, documentation and coding
• Previous experience with DBA case tools (frontend/backend) and third party tools
• Familiarity with programming languages API
• Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically
• Experience administering AWS Aurora or comparable cloud based relational database clusters is essential.
• Expert level understanding of SQL, query optimization, indexing and execution plan analysis.
• High availability and DR expertise: Demonstrated experience implementing replication, failover and disaster recovery strategies, along with backup/restore procedures that meet strict availability requirements.
• Scripting and automation skills : Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) to automate database operations.
• Containerization and orchestration: Hands on experience deploying and managing databases on Docker and orchestrating them with Kubernetes, including StatefulSets, persistent volumes, and operators.
• Monitoring stack: Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and logging/alerting frameworks to build metrics dashboards and manage alerts.
• Cloud infrastructure: Experience with AWS services (Aurora, RDS, EC2, EKS, IAM) and knowledge of virtualization, storage performance and networking.br> br>