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Site Reliability Engineer – MySQL DB Platform

Who We Are

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What you’ll do

Site Reliability Engineers are responsible and take ownership for reliability, scalability, automation, and other aspects related to uptime and availability of our database services. You will need to have strong skills in following areas:

Design, write and build tools to improve the reliability, availability and scalability of our MySQL/NoSQL Cloud Database Platform Offerings.

Augment existing instrumentation to build a cohesive picture of the characteristics of our systems with special attention to points of failure.

Design and develop improvements, focused on resilience, to our production systems to achieve and surpass SLOs

Help improve our operational practices to minimize service disruptions

Work with our Service Assurance team to modernize and improve our monitoring and alerting stack.

Design new tools to monitor and inquisitive alerts that help discover failures or issues before our customers.

Work with engineers to identify root cause and fix issues

Influence, design and create new architectures, standards and methods for large-scale enterprise systems.

Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

Who you will work with

We are an agile team inside Cisco IT, building the next generation NoSQL Databases on cloud platforms that will be demonstrated by all of Cisco as we move to cloud native applications. This is a small team of highly motivated individuals demonstrating Agile scrum methodology. Our team is responsible for building and operating Hybrid Cloud Database services in a DevSecOps model.

We move at a fast pace and are passionate about cloud and automation. We have a history of building clouds at a large scale and are looking for someone who as passionate about it as we are.

Who You Are

You are a success driven Site Reliability Engineer with validated technical skills and who has a passion for enterprise cloud database platform automation and DevOps frameworks. You have a proven track record of designing, developing and handling NoSQL Database Ops code using open source technologies.

A site Reliability Engineer would need to know the process of IT and automation and have some experience in leading such process. Having experience working with database cloud applications and how they operate would

Help out the team. The position typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field as well as relative work experience in database cloud applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or related field

Technical Expertise: 6-9 yrs

Well versed with MySQL architecture - Community and Enterprise. Good hands on experience working with Load Balancers, MySQL Router, HA Proxy, Amazon S3, InnoDB Cluster, Multi Master, Replica sets and observability tools such as AppDynamics.

Additional experience with one or more of DBs such as Redis, PostgreSQL or Mongo is required alongside MySQL.

Understand IT processes including architecture, design, implementation, and operations

Proven grasp of MySQL Architecture and Administration which includes Designing, Provisioning, Upgrading, Operating, Backups, Security, Performance etc

Experience with CI/CD framework and tools like GIT, Jenkins

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with automating DB tasks using python, Database Lifecycle Management

Proven grasp on building scalable databases using hybrid cloud infrastructure

Experience with configuration automation using Ansible

Experience and practice with public cloud like AWS, GCP, or Azure, Kubernetes preferred

Behavioral Competencies:

Able to establish relationships, be culturally critical, have goal alignment, have learning agility, Self-motivated, able and willing to help where help is needed

Exposure to Agile development practices

Working with geographically distributed teams

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an expansive future for all.

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Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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