Website Digital Ocean
Job Category: Permanent Work From Home – Full Time
Advertised On: 9th July 2022
What You’ll Be Doing:
- MySQL administration, operations, and performance tuning
- Delivering managed data platform solutions as a service that facilitate adoption and offer operational elegance
- Working closely with product engineering and infrastructure teams to drive adoption of services throughout the company
- Instrument and monitor services developed to ensure operational performance
- Create tooling and automation to reduce operational burdens
- Establishing best practices for development, deployment, and operations
- Driving adoption of services throughout the company
- Interact with developers and teams to resolve site and database issues
What You’ll Add to Digital Ocean:
- Experience supporting MySQL / Percona Server / MariaDB in a production environment, with in-depth knowledge of topics such as MySQL backups, high availability, and performance tuning
- Distinguished track record developing and automating platform solutions that serve the needs of other engineering teams
- Experience with other data technologies such as Kafka and Redis
- Fluency in SQL, Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
- Experience with Xtrabackup, ProxySQL, MySQL Orchestrator, SQL query tuning, Linux performance troubleshooting
- Experience with configuration management tooling such as Chef & Ansible
- What We’d Love You To Have:
- Experience with Xtrabackup, ProxySQL, MySQL Orchestrator, SQL query tuning, Linux performance troubleshooting
- An understanding of using Kubernetes as well as using Consul
- Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Concourse, GitHub Actions
- Some familiarity with Go readability
- Passion for production engineering done in a resilient fashion
- You have a passion for not repeating yourself (DRY) by way of automation
What Will Not Be Expected From You:
- Demonstrated expertise in being a ‘data scientist’ – this role has much more production engineering focus
- Crunching mundane support tickets day over day – be the Automator
- Following a lengthy and strict product roadmap – engineers wear product hats as needed and help define what platform gets built