Site Reliability Engineer

Database Site Reliability Engineer (Database Operations)

Location: Alpharetta, GA onsite/week

Duration: 12+months

Working Hours: (Sunday-Wednesday 7am-5pm)

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:

o Sybase ASE

Oracle RAC

• Additional database technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar platforms are a plus.
• Experience performing:
• o Installation
• Configuration
• Upgrades
• Patching
• Performance tuning
• Backup and recovery
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Experience with database replication technologies including:
• o SAP Replication Server
• Data Guard
• HVR (preferred)
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience with automation and scripting:
• o 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.