Cloud Database Engineer I/II

Summary

Join Rackspace Technology as a Cloud Database Engineer, contributing to database engineering and administration. You will design, plan, configure, monitor, and automate databases, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. Responsibilities include database migration to cloud platforms (Azure/GCP), troubleshooting, performance analysis, and documentation. You will work with various tools like Azure Migrate and GCP DMS. The role requires 1-5 years of experience with Oracle and AWS/Azure, and involves rotational shifts including nights. The position is remote in India.

Requirements

• Oracle with AWS/Azure
• 1-5 yrs of experience
• Must be open for rotational shift (including night)

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and use Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for migration execution and ensure long term technical viability and optimization of production deployments and administration
• Engage, Consult and Deliver based on interactive customer communications in streamlining project deliverables and scope of work
• Plan, Create, Manage and Deploy Effective High Availability and Disaster Recovery strategy/Runbooks
• Patch Management and Upgrades: Plan and execute Database software upgrades, patches, and service packs
• Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Investigate and resolve complex database-related issues, including data corruption, performance problems, and connectivity challenges
• Automation and Scripting: Contribute to automation scripts and tools to streamline repetitive tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce the risk of human errors
• Monitoring and Alerting: Set up monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address potential database issues before they become critical
• Performance Analysis and Reporting: Generate performance reports and analysis for stakeholders and management to provide insights into the database environment's health and performance
• Documentation: Maintain up-to-date documentation of database configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps
• Ticket Handling: Work to resolve Incident, Changes and Service request under the agreed client SLA
• Problem Management: Responsible in resolving problem tickets by creating detailed RCA reports
• Vendor and Third-Party Tool Management: Evaluate and manage third-party tools and solutions that assist in database management, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Participate in 24X7 production support for Database Operations
• Hands-on with using cloud tech tools such as Azure Migrate, Data Migration Service, Azure ASR, GCP DMS, GCP Backup and Disaster Recovery Service
• Migration from Oracle or/and Postgres to/from Other RDBMS platform for PaaS models like Azure Database, GCP Cloud SQL, Oracle@GCP
• Understanding Cloud basics and perform duties like security management, storage management, Backup Vaults, Key vaults, Server/DB Monitoring
• Cost Optimization: Compute and workload analysis, License enhancements and features
• Proficient Skills from tech bucket (Oracle or/and PostgreSQL) for Architecture, Installation and Configuration, Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Monitoring and Troubleshooting