CockroachDB DBA

Job Title - CockroachDB DBA

Location - Chandler, AZ (Onsite 3-days/week)

Job Type - Full-time with benefits

Job Description:

• Collaborate with internal and client teams to resolve complex incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and document findings with preventive recommendations
• Participate in evaluation of client IT infrastructure, prepare actionable assessment reports, and support due diligence to document infrastructure maturity and improvement opportunities
• Contribute to the design of scalable, cost-effective IT infrastructure solutions, review reusable components, and develop technical documentation for deployed systems
• Align release schedules and environment readiness, execute deployments as per protocols, perform post-deployment testing, and manage version control to track changes
• Co-ordinate maintenance schedules, emergency fixes, and technology upgrades while ensuring uninterrupted integration into existing systems and processes
• Facilitate performance data analysis across systems, coordinate insights on system behavior, and support capacity planning to optimize performance
• Conduct security checks, recovery drills, and compliance audits, implement security measures, and coordinate continuity plans to maintain adherence to standards
• Gather feedback to identify automation opportunities, analyze existing infrastructure processes, and propose enhancements for efficiency gains
• Act as liaison with onsite, offshore, and vendor teams to document project requirements, ensuring effective collaboration
• Develop a centralized repository of technical and procedural knowledge, leveraging insights from other projects to drive efficiency and retain organizational expertise

Your contribution to the team:

• A collaborative spirit and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to handle complex incidents and implement resolutions
• A knack for conducting IT infrastructure assessment and identifying key optimization opportunities
• Focused approach towards deployment management, system optimization, and process automation initiatives including sector specific focus
• The ability to work with cross-functional teams

Required Skill and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with databases CockroachDB, Redis or ElastiCache.
• Working knowledge of managing databases on containers with good understanding of container concepts, including scheduling, networking, storage, configuration, and secrets management.
• Experience operating infrastructure services and database workloads in Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform) and automated deployment approaches.
• Proficiency in Python working with APIs for developing and operationalizing AI driven applications including agent designs
• Experience working in large scale enterprise environments with strong requirements for security, reliability, and compliance

Preferred Skill and Experience

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for containerized applications
• Experience contributing within Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe)
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues.

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time employee you are also eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness , Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off