DATABASE RELIABILITY ENGINEER/ANALYST (DBRE) SME
Location: Cape Town Remote / Hybrid | Experience Level: Senior (7 years+)
Job Overview
We're looking for an experienced Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) SME to join our team and work with a leading aviation customer. This is a fully remote role where you'll play a key part in improving the reliability, performance and scalability of critical database platforms.
As the Database Reliability Engineering SME, you'll be the technical expert across open-source database technologies, with a particular focus on Percona/MySQL and MongoDB. You'll work closely with engineering teams to optimise database performance, improve resilience, support high availability and implement best practice monitoring and disaster recovery strategies.
Key Responsibilities
· Optimising the performance, availability and reliability of production databases.
· Supporting and improving MongoDB and Percona/MySQL environments.
· Reviewing and improving replica sets, sharding, replication and clustering.
· Troubleshooting database issues and carrying out root cause analysis.
· Designing and validating backup and disaster recovery solutions.
· Building and improving database monitoring, observability and alerting.
· Leading database upgrades, migrations and optimisation projects.
· Working closely with DevOps, infrastructure and application teams to deliver reliable database platforms.
· Creating documentation, runbooks and sharing best practices with the wider engineering team.
Required Skills & Qualifications
· 7+ years' experience in Database Engineering or Database Reliability Engineering.
· Strong hands-on experience with Percona/MySQL.
· Commercial experience supporting MongoDB (including replica sets, sharding, indexing and performance tuning).
· Experience with PostgreSQL is beneficial.
· Strong understanding of replication, clustering and high availability.
· Experience with backup and disaster recovery, including Percona XtraBackup.
· Experience using monitoring tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Prometheus and Grafana.
· Good Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
· Experience working with AWS, Azure or GCP database services is an advantage
About us
Veritas World is a global leader in employment compliance, helping our UK and US partners build offshore hubs of excellence in South Africa. As a truly transparent and reliable employer of record, we connect international companies with the truly remarkable talent pool in South Africa to create opportunities and a platform for both workers and companies to thrive in an increasingly globalised market. For us it is about creating careers and sustainable connections, not just jobs.
Send your CV to [email protected]
Pay: R85 000,00 - R125 000,00 per month
Experience:
- MongoDB: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in South Africa
