Responsibilities
Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines for critical database services
Design and implement solutions that improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS database platforms
Participate in on-call rotation to assist in the recovery of major production incidents and act as a senior escalation point
Plan and execute failover testing within and between AWS regions
Automate the recovery of systems and components using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management
Implement automation and execute code in production environments to reduce manual effort and operational toil
Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions, including reusable, code-defined dashboards
Contribute to post-mortems, root cause analyses, reliability engineering documentation, and mentoring of junior engineers
Requirements
Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services such as Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Dyna
moDB, or Amazon ElastiCache
Strong SQL skills with experience in database design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, locks, and performance bottlenecks
Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or a comparable language
Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions
Solid understanding of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts
Experience participating in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using CloudFormation or Terraform and CI/CD practices for database change management
Experience implementing database security, access governance, resiliency patterns, or supporting high-availability production environments
Risk benefit statement
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If performed in any following locations: Ireland - Dublin (Rockfield Central), the base pay range is €68,400 - €114,000.


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