
Senior, Database Reliability Engineer

Senior, Database Reliability Engineer

Senior, Database Reliability Engineer
Gerson Lehrman Group
The Senior Database Reliability Engineer at GLG will be part of a team focused on building and optimizing data infrastructure for a platform that connects businesses with expert insights. The role involves collaboration with various teams to enhance database performance, scalability, and resilience while ensuring best practices in data management.
Qualification
- Experience in database administration and engineering.
- Proficiency in SQL and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with multiple scripting languages and data platforms.
- Strong understanding of data structures and database design.
- Ability to monitor and optimize database performance.
Responsibility
- Tune SQL queries to increase performance and decrease overall system impact.
- Monitor servers for performance problems and alleviate bottlenecks.
- Build systems and programs that automate away repetitive tasks.
- Design and refactor data structures to meet performance goals.
- Review schema change proposals from development teams and suggest best practices.
- Administer database roles and users.
- Monitor and maintain database backups and restores.
- Ensure optimal database indexing.
- Conduct capacity planning and make and implement recommendations.
- Coach, educate, and lead other engineers across the technology organization on how to best interact with data.


