Desired Skills and Experience
- You will oversee, manage and develop the Database teams, who are responsible for monitoring day to day MySQL, PostgreSQL and other OLTP database systems in terms of operations and management
- You prepare the plans and roadmaps for the team, working closely with engineering and operations team in building tooling to drive scalability, reliability and performance
- You will support the team in performing database capacity planning and maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning, and diagnose any database issues and employ measures to prevent recurrence
- Research and develop new technologies and approaches for building highly available data persistence systems
- A core function of this role involves attracting, developing, and keeping a world-class engineering team. You would have a proven track record at building strong teams, making them even stronger, and successfully organizing and leading their efforts to deliver excellent results for customers.
- Proven track record with installation, management, upgrades, backup and restore of large MySQL, PostgreSQL and or other OLTP database system installations
- Experience benchmarking, clustering and tuning the databases for performance, reliability, high availability and scalability
- Familiar with a key-value store or data structure database (such as Redis, ElasticSearch et al)
- Experience with AWS RDS / ElastiCache / other AWS Database Services or experience with management of databases in AWS environment will a strong plus
- Deep understanding and real passion for relational database theory and database fundamentals
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