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Database Site Reliability Engineer

SOHO Square SolutionsJohns Creek, GA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 31 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Johns Creek, GA, United States
Posted
16 hours ago
MongoDBMySQLOracleShellAnsibleCassandraConfluenceJiraPostgreSQLPythonRedis

Job Description

Job Title: Database Site Reliability Engineer (Database Operations)
Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months
Interview Type: In-Person
 
NOTE: 4 - 10 hour days (Sunday-Wednesday 7am-5pm)
 
Job Description:
 
Database Site Reliability Engineer (Database Operations)
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Database Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and operate mission-critical database platforms within a fast-paced enterprise environment. This role is focused on operational excellence, reliability, resiliency, automation, and continuous improvement across multiple database technologies.
This is not a development role. We are looking for hands-on database professionals who thrive in production operations, take ownership of issues, understand urgency, and are passionate about improving systems, processes, and themselves.
The ideal candidate views reliability as a product, proactively identifies risks before they become incidents, and continuously seeks opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and improve platform stability.
Key Responsibilities
Database Operations & Reliability
  • Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain enterprise database platforms.
  • Ensure availability, performance, recoverability, and security of production database environments.
  • Monitor database platforms and associated infrastructure, responding rapidly to incidents and service degradations.
  • Lead troubleshooting efforts for database, operating system, storage, replication, and application connectivity issues.
  • Execute failovers, disaster recovery testing, and recovery procedures.
  • Partner with application teams to provide database guidance and operational support.
Platform Engineering
  • Deploy, maintain, and optimize database infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
  • Implement scalable, resilient database solutions.
  • Evaluate and recommend improvements to architecture, monitoring, automation, and operational processes.
  • Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform lifecycle management.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
  • Develop and maintain automation solutions using Python, Shell, Ansible, or similar technologies.
  • Help eliminate manual operational activities through engineering and automation.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, reporting, and operational workflows.
  • Drive incremental improvements that reduce risk, improve reliability, and increase operational efficiency.
Performance & Incident Management
  • Analyze and resolve database performance issues.
  • Troubleshoot replication, backup/recovery, storage, network, and infrastructure-related incidents.
  • Participate in root cause analysis and drive permanent corrective actions.
  • Review operational metrics and trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
Operational Excellence
  • Maintain accurate operational documentation, standards, and procedures.
  • Generate and present operational metrics, service health indicators, and reliability reporting.
  • Participate in incident response activities.
  • Demonstrate strong ownership from issue identification through resolution.
Required Qualifications
  •  Strong experience administering enterprise database platforms, including:
    • Sybase ASE
    • Oracle RAC
    • Additional database technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar platforms are a plus.
  • Experience performing:
    • Installation
    • Configuration
    • Upgrades
    • Patching
    • Performance tuning
    • Backup and recovery
    • High availability and disaster recovery
  • Experience with database replication technologies including:
    • SAP Replication Server
    • Data Guard
    • HVR (preferred)
  • Strong Linux administration skills.
  • Experience with automation and scripting:
    • Python
    • Ansible
    • Shell scripting
  • Understanding of storage, networking, operating systems, and infrastructure services.
  • Experience with Veritas Cluster Server, ASM, LVM, and SAN technologies.
  • Familiarity with enterprise operational tooling such as Jira, Service Now and Confluence.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate:
  • Takes ownership and drives issues to closure.
  • Understands the urgency required to support critical production environments.
  • Continuously improves systems, processes, and operational effectiveness.
  • Learns quickly and adapts to new technologies.
  • Balances operational stability with engineering innovation.
  • Communicates clearly and effectively during incidents and high-pressure situations.
  • Demonstrates a strong sense of accountability and professionalism.
  • Leaves the platform better than they found it every day.
Preferred Mindset
We hire for attitude as much as technical skill.
We're looking for individuals who are:
  • Customer obsessed
  • Accountable and dependable
  • Urgent without being reckless
  • Continuously learning
  • Driven to automate repetitive work
  • Detail-oriented
  • Collaborative but willing to lead
  • Focused on long-term platform reliability rather than short-term fixes

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