Database Reliability Engineer

Job description
We are looking for enthusiastic team players with experience in data engineering, big data and database administration to introduce new processes and procedures to improve the way we administer and make use of our data.

Job Description
The Infrastructure team provides support to the development community at Weta FX. Our scope includes tools and support for version control, build systems, database platform management and developer consulting.

Key Responsibilities:
Instituting a program of work to upgrade and optimize our core MySQL, PostgreSQL and Elastic clusters
Best practice database administration: provisioning, monitoring, cloning, replication, backups, upgrades, availability, performance monitoring, trouble shooting, recovery, archiving, tuning, query optimization, upgrade management
Developer support, user education, and provision of various development and data-oriented services
Platform architecture, project-based work, strategy development, technology research
About this Role
This is a significant opportunity to help, shape and improve the way Weta FX manages and uses its data.

Suitable Backgrounds
Candidates with a DBA, analyst programming, SQL report writing or engineering background, or other similar prior experience, are suitable for this role.

Desirable Skills & Experience
RDBMS administration: MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL with exposure to large datasets in HA environments
Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Kafka or similar adjunct data systems
Infrastructure automation using Puppet (preferred), Ansible, Terraform or similar orchestration tools
Proficiency in a common scripting language (Python preferred - Ruby, Go and NodeJS acceptable)
Strong Linux experience (Ubuntu / Debian preferred, Fedora / RHEL acceptable)
Monitoring systems such as Sensu
Nice To Have
RDBMS administration experience in HA environments
Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Kafka or similar adjunct data systems
Infrastructure automation experience
Proficiency in a common scripting language
Strong Linux experience
Monitoring systems experience
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