Database Administrator

Summary

Join Encora's Remote DBA team in Bangalore as a full-time employee with a hybrid work model. This role requires 7+ years of experience and involves performing remote DBA activities for global customers, automating tasks, setting up monitoring, conducting health checks, contributing to the MariaDB community, and building tools. The position demands strong troubleshooting skills, proficiency with Linux, and excellent communication. International travel may be required for company meetings.

Requirements

• 7+ Years Experience
• Full-time Job
• Hybrid Work Mode

Responsibilities

• 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
• Provide coverage during designated schedule
• Ability to travel internationally for company-related meetings

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Proficient with the Linux command line (using SSH, running shell scripts, installing packages, using tools like top and iostat, etc.)
• Very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working remotely (equipment provided)
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills