Engineer, Site Reliability

Syniti enables agile enterprises with silo-free enterprise data management that helps turn complex data challenges into competitive advantages. With a unified, learning platform and one of the world s largest teams of data-focused experts, enterprises and global alliance partners choose Syniti when they require trusted data to ignite business growth and reduce risks. Syniti is a portfolio company of BridgeGrowth Partners LLC . Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in 25 countries around the world, Syniti operates in all global regions and industry verticals, and maintains a 99.7% client success rate across thousands of complex data projects and initiatives.

General Summary

Syniti s Cloud Operations team provides 24x7x365 support for all our SaaS & Hosting customers globally. This business unit is responsible for ensuring the uptime, performance and high availability of all customer operations inside of the SaaS & Hosted environments including multi-tiered applications & microservice architectures as well as large & complex multi-terabyte database systems.

The Database Reliability Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the health and wellness of our enterprise database systems. Areas of focus include performance tuning, settings optimizations and deployments, backups, high availability and disaster recovery. You will also be expected to understand and participate in the operation and configuration of the database instances and supporting infrastructure. This role supports a heterogeneous environment that includes test, development, and production systems running on PostgreSQL and MSSQL with plans for broader support of other sql/no-sql systems in the future.

The ultimate objective will be to minimize toil as much as possible through automated solutions for the day-to-day maintenance, upkeep and operations control tasks needed for database administration, allowing the engineer to focus their efforts on improving the performance of the existing platform and contributing to the design and architecture of new database structures inside the SaaS ecosystem.

An ideal candidate will have the skillsets of both a principal database administrator and a junior to mid-level SRE.

AWS experience with RDS and Aurora Serverless solutions is a must.

Preferential consideration will be given to candidates that have experience automating operations tasks using bash, Python, or other equivalent languages.

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