Database Consultant, MySQL

Why Pythian: At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics. Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy. Why you: The Senior Site Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in the following key areas of responsibility:

• Ensure services and systems are reliable by focusing on scalability, latency, performance, availability, efficiency, and observability.
• Develop systems and maintain key components to automate and minimize human labor.
• Enhance system reliability while decoupling system size from operational toil and complexity.
• Training and mentoring - both technical and customer satisfaction oriented.
• Thought leadership.

If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out! Intrigued to see what a life is like at Pythian? Check out #pythianlife on LinkedIn and follow @loveyourdata on Instagram! Not the right job for you? Check out what other great jobs Pythian has open around the world! Pythian Careers What you will be doing:

• Uses relevant development languages and knowledge of systems, services, and tools appropriate for the business area to build software applications. Serves as the primary contact for this area.
• Develop readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries.
• Mentor junior team members on code readability and reusability.
• Ensure data security, integrity, and quality by adhering to company standards and best practices.
• Design solutions that fulfill current business requirements and accommodate future enhancements.
• Guide teams to guarantee systems are reusable and interoperable.
• Use best practices to reduce risks to business operations by creating clear documentation like runbooks and operational guides.
• Collaborate with development teams to define and implement relevant observability metrics, with the goal of enhancing application reliability.
• Spearhead incident response for issues impacting their track.
• Leverage new technologies and automation to reduce operational and maintenance costs.
• Eliminate technical debt, identify scaling bottlenecks, and proactively plan for future growth to ensure infrastructure is kept up-to-date.
• Use excellent technical judgement, innovation, and execution to prioritize and solve challenging problems.
• Independently drive business results across multiple teams by either leading high-level architectural decisions or implementing complex components of a project.
• Set technical strategy and define technical roadmaps with cross-team dependencies for business impacting projects, requiring a high level of technical expertise.

What we need from you:

• Demonstrated experience in Object Oriented Programming with Python or Go.
• Tool Stack: Terraform, AWS, Docker, Vault, ProxySQL,and Gitlab.
• Skills: Automation (General), Infrastructure as Code,Python Scripting,Bash shell scripting,and Unix system admin.
• 5 Years working in an SRE role,includinga minimum oftwo years verifiable experience workingwith terraform on AWS ina production environment.
• Intermediate-level experience with MySQL or other relational database systems.
• Logicaland analytical thinkingfor problem-solving.
• Proven abilityto systematically identify patternsand underlying issuesin complex situations.
• Strong skillsin identifying opportunitiesto improve processes,Systems,and structures,enhanCing performance through analysisand assessmentof existing process flows,methOds,and standards.
• Experiencein delivering clear,wEll-strUctured,and meaningful informationto a target audience,useing appropriate communication mediumsand language tailoredto the audience.
• Abilityto achieve mutually agreeable solutionsby staying adaptable.communicating ideas clearly.and practicing active listening.

What you will receive:

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package.Blog during work hours; take a day offand volunteerfor your favorite charity.
• Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotelyfrom your home.there’s no daily travel requirementto an office! All you needis a stable internet connection.
• Love your coworkers: Collaboratewith someofthe bestand brightest inthe industry!
• Love your development: Hone your skillsor learn new oneswith our substantial training allowance; participatein professional development days.attend training.become certified.whatever you like!
• Love your workspace: We giveyou allthe equipmentyou needto workfrom home includinga laptopwith your choiceof OS.and an annual budgetto personalizeyour work environment!
• Love yourself: Pythian caresaboutthe healthand well-beingof our team.You will havean annual wellness budgettomake yourselfa priority(use iton gym memberships,massages.fitnessand more).Additionally,you will receivea generous amountof paid vacationandsick days.as wellas aday offto volunteerfor your favorite charity.

Hiring Disclaimer

• The successful applicantwill needto fulfill therequirements necessaryto obtaina background check. Accommodationsare availableupon requestfor candidates takingpartin any aspectofthe selection process.

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