Platform Engineer - NoSQL

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THE ROLEWe seek a Platform Engineer with database administrator capabilities and a DevOps mindset obsessed with automation, scalability, performance, and infrastructure reliability to join our database NoSQL team. As part of this team, you will be responsible for managing our database environments, optimizing performance, and contributing to the development of innovative solutions that enhance our database infrastructure, stability, maintenance, deployment, and security. You will work closely with development teams to ensure seamless integration and support for our applications from a database perspective. The team is responsible for maintaining over 1,000 VMs, divided into over 150 clusters for Cassandra and MongoDB.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Automation Development: Develop automation tools to minimize repetitive activities, improving team efficiency.
• Infrastructure Maintenance: Contribute to maintaining, improving, and innovating features of the database infrastructure that are aligned with engineering requirements, ensuring robust performance and reliability.
• Process Optimization: Create components that remove complexity from team processes, promoting an efficient team.
• Self-Serving Data Architecture: Develop and maintain the tools for a self-serving data architecture approach, empowering teams to manage their data needs.
• Disaster Recovery: Design and implement disaster recovery mechanisms to protect data integrity and availability.
• Collaboration with Development Teams: Work closely with development teams to analyze database structures for new services and ensure the optimal performance and health of existing databases.
• Performance Analysis: Execute database performance analysis, identifying and implementing solutions to address potential issues and prevent incidents.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to help mitigate critical incidents.
• NoSQL Support: Manage and optimize NoSQL database Infrastructure (Cassandra and MongoDB), ensuring it runs efficiently and complies with security standards.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• You have 3+ years of experience with software development and NoSQL Databases.
• You understand the primary database operations such as backups, replications, clusters, etc.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with a positive attitude.
• Experience coding in Python, working in Linux environments, and with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with the following technologies will be considered a plus: MongoDB/Cassandra, SaltStack, Cloud Provider (GCP/AWS/Azure), Version control and CI/CD deployment principles, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Proficient in English - written and verbal communication skills.
• You are passionate about software engineering and databases and want to be part of a dynamic team.