Database Engineer - Redis (6-13 yrs)

Dynamics of the Role :

This is an exciting time in our company. With investments in our people, technology and new business markets, we are redefining the role and purpose of a credit bureau.

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Redis Database Administrator to join our dynamic team. Within our Database Administration team, you'll be a master of managing and administering the backbone of our technological infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the performance, integrity, and security of our Redis instances. This role involves both strategic and operational responsibilities, including planning, development, and troubleshooting.

The ideal candidate will work closely with our development and IT operations teams to ensure seamless database operations and optimal performance. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of database architecture, experience with database tuning and optimization. You should also be familiar with various database tools and technologies and have experience in automating database tasks. Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work under pressure are essential for this role.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Responsible for the management and maintenance of Redis.

- Responsible for integrity and high availability of the database environments.

- Experience installing and configuring of Redis on Linux.

- Experience in Redis Database high availability, clustering, geo replication, monitoring.

- Experience adding and removing of nodes in existing Redis cluster.

- Experience with shard migration, failover, carrying out maintenance activities like upgrades, patches and updates in live Redis cluster.

- Design and develop database and cache system solutions and operation and maintenance management tools.

- Continuously improve the database and cache system solutions to ensure the reliable and stable operation of the database.

- Daily maintenance of the database, and emergency recovery when major problems occur.

- Provide database development support and perform index optimization and tuning according to business needs.

- Perform regular system health checks and locate and troubleshoot performance problems.

- Cooperate with various stakeholders to complete a series of database optimization work.

- Master database performance tuning, monitoring, backup, exception handling, fault recovery.

- Master database high availability and dynamic expansion solutions.

- Provide good read and writing skills of separation scheme (IO read/write).

- As part of the DBA team, you will collaborate with peer DBAs, project teams, application contacts to support and maintain current implementations as well as new builds/requirements.

- The role will assist in assuring that the Database implementations are secure, compliant, and adhere to minimum security requirements.

- You will aid in reviewing new enhancements, features, products for future use and planning

- Experience in process/query analysis and buffer tuning.

Experience and Skills :

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

- Minimum 3 to 7 years of hands-on experience as a Redis DBA (bot Enterprise and Open Source).

- Worked as a team member to provide 24x7 on-call production database support.

- Extensive hands-on experience with Redis, including installation, configuration, and administration.

- Proficiency in using tools like Redis Insight, Redis Desktop Manager, Splunk, etc for performance monitoring.

- Experience with Redis clustering, sharding, and high availability (HA) setups.

- Experience in monitoring and optimizing Redis performance, including memory usage, latency, and throughput.

- Experience in securing Redis instances in cloud or on-premises environments.

- Moderate experience with Linux or storage including shell scripting, system monitoring, and troubleshooting.

- Solid understanding of Redis data structures, such as strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes.

- Solid understanding of database management and caching concepts.

- Solid Understanding of in-memory data structures and optimization techniques.

- Knowledge of Redis security features, including authentication, encryption, and access control.

- Knowledge of disaster recovery planning.

- Knowledge of data protection regulations.

- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve database issues.

- Ability to develop and maintain database documentation.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment and meet deadlines.

- Strong communication, organizational, verbal & written skills.

- Excellent problem-solving skills.

- High degree of responsibility and ownership, strong multitasking, coordination and tenaciously looking for ways to get results.

Good To Have :

- Experience with cloud concepts like GCP Memory Store.

- Experience with PostgreSQL.

- Knowledge and experience on Redis modules, such as Redis Graph, Redis JSON, or Redis AI.

- Experience with migrating data from relational databases or other NoSQL databases to Redis.

- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration for Redis deployment.