Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Focus

This is a remote position.

• Employment Type: Contract
  
• Work Mode: Remote
  
• Location: Offshore
  
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 9 years
  
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated database reliability engineering or database administration (DBA) experience in high-throughput cloud environments
  
• Mandatory Certification: AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Certified Postgres Professional, or Oracle Database Administration Certified Professional
  

• Design and maintain highly available database cluster topologies across public clouds, leveraging automated scaling, sharding mechanisms, and read-replica strategies.
  
• Optimize sub-millisecond database query performance, conducting rigorous index evaluations, identifying locking contentions, and rewrites of inefficient SQL scripts.
  
• Orchestrate automated backup and disaster recovery validation sweeps, configuring point-in-time recovery (PITR) parameters and multi-region failover tests.
  
• Build automated telemetry dashboards and proactive alerts utilizing monitoring frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to track database health metrics (IOPS, CPU utilization, connections).
  
• Write robust automation scripts using Python, Go, or Bash to manage recurring database maintenance routines, schema migration deployments, and resource adjustments.
  
• Diagnose and remediate production database performance bottlenecks, resolving replication lags, connection pool limits, memory usage leaks, and deadlocks.
  
• Enforce data safety and governance protocols, configuring encryption-at-rest policies, fine-grained access parameters, and compliance masking routines to secure sensitive records.
  

Requirements

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering or database administration experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively managing high-scale, cloud-native relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora) or NoSQL databases.
  
• Strong technical mastery of database engine configurations, connection poolers (e.g., PgBouncer), infrastructure automation (Terraform), and system telemetry structures.
  
• Deep structural understanding of write-ahead logging (WAL), isolation levels, transaction mechanics, distributed storage bounds, and network latency impacts.
  
• Mandatory certification: AWS Database Specialty, Certified Postgres Professional, or Oracle Database Admin Certified Professional.
  

• Prior experience implementing large-scale live database data migrations with minimal production operational windows.
  
• Familiarity with distributed database engines or streaming message queues (e.g., CockroachDB, Kafka, Debezium) for real-time change data capture (CDC).