About Job

CTC Undisclosed Job Location Canada Experience 0 - 3 yrs

Description

What will you be doing? The Database Consultant (DBC) will, as part our team based approach, supply complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of Pythian customers.

Our collaborative Mongo environment means everyone works together to solve complex puzzles and develop innovative solutions for our customers.

You'll work closely with the customer teams to understand their needs, in both a project based and long term support capacity.

You'll create and document database standards, create optimized queries, indexes, and data structure.

Monitor and support database environments and serve as an escalation point for complex troubleshooting and interactive production support.

Use database vendor provided tools and Pythian developed accelerators to performance tune various database system, specific queries and applications scenarios.

Diagnose and address database performance issues using performance monitors and various tuning techniques.

Identify areas of opportunity and recommend appropriate improvement suggestions.

Work with our SRE organization to help configure and deploy High-Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions for critical applications to meet customers needs.

Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.

When you're not fixing things, you'll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, creating new articles in our customer facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things like participating in conferences and meetups promoting Pythian to the open source community.

What do we need from you? While we understand you might not have everything on the list, to be the successful candidate for the MySQL & Mongo DBC job you are likely to have skills such as;

Strong knowledge and experience in installing, configuring and upgrading MongoDB databases, as well as general administration.

Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, backup solutions (Physical and Logical) Replica set (elections, read/write concerns, arbiters) etc

Sharding (choosing a good shard key, balancer, moving chunks, zoning shard with pre-split chunks, etc)

Engine selection and usage

Detailed understanding of monitoring requirements

Demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems

Knowledge about virtualized environments such as VMWare, Docker and/or Kubernetes

Knowledge of public cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and/or Azure)

Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues

Very good documentation skills.

Scripting/automation tooling (bash/python and Ansible) experience would be great.

Nice to haves include; Understanding of current IT service standards such as ITIL. Being a contributor to Open Source projects relevant to MongoDB, MySQL or other database or infrastructure software. Completed MongoDB University courses