Remote Database Administrator Cloud
Job description
Remote Database Administrator role on MariaDB's Remote DBA team, delivering expert DBA services to customers worldwide and managing SkySQL cloud customers. The position is remote in Bulgaria (or hybrid from the Sofia office) and includes on-call and occasional night, weekend and holiday coverage.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Bulgaria
- Languages
- English – fluent
- Pay
- EUR 40,000 – 50,000 / year
What you'll do
- Perform DBA activities remotely with customers around the world
- Automate various DBA tasks
- Set up monitoring and other activities on customer servers
- Perform periodic health checks and reports on customer systems
- Participate in the community by blogging and other social media
- Help the MariaDB team build tools and enhancements around MariaDB
- Help improve practices and common methodologies for the Remote DBA team
- Ability to be on call as needed to guarantee customer SLAs
- Manage SkySQL customers across cloud environments
- Provide coverage during designated schedule
- Ability to travel internationally for company-related meetings
What we're looking for
- Passion for serving customers and solving technical problems
- Experience with MariaDB/MySQL and surrounding tools
- Knowledge of SQL query writing and optimization
- Knowledge of database design, administration, development or architecture
- Understanding of various high availability environments and technologies
- Very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Tenacity with regard to customer communication & follow-up
- Comfortable working remotely (equipment provided)
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
- Experience with some sort of columnar database platform
- Previous usage of database proxying technology
Nice to have
- Experience in a 24×7 support environment
- Proficient with multiple backup utilities (mydumper, MariaDB Backup, Xtrabackup, mysqldump, etc.)
- Prior MariaDB, Percona, or MySQL support engineer experience
- Previous experience working remotely
- Proficient in one or more scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, etc.)
- Sysadmin experience (Linux, Windows, etc.)
- Working knowledge of other database systems (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres, RDS/Aurora, MongoDB, etc.)
- Contributions to open source software in the MariaDB/MySQL ecosystem
- Experience with other MariaDB products such as MaxScale, ColumnStore, Cluster/Galera, Clustrix, etc.
- Proficient with virtualization software (Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, etc.)
- Experience with cloud offerings
- Experience with automation toolsets
- Experience with containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
- MariaDB/MySQL monitoring software experience
- MariaDB and/or MySQL certifications
Your team
Remote DBA team
A "virtual" team, distributed globally, telecommuting via the internet and working with customers around the world.
Benefits
Be part of a game-changing organization that encourages outside-the-box thinking, values empowerment, and is truly shaping the future of the software industry
- Collaborating with high-caliber colleagues around the world, offering unparalleled learning and growth opportunities
- We provide a very competitive
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About MariaDB plc
The backbone of applications used every day
MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you're checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used every day. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.
Key facts
- 75% of the Fortune 500 run MariaDB
- Massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds
- SkySQL cloud platform solution
What they value
- Encourages outside-the-box thinking
- Values empowerment