**Introduction** This role is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining SQL and NoSQL-based infrastructures in support of high-volume, complex data transactions for specific services or groups of services. The position will be part of the SRE Data team and will primarily work with R&D, SRE and Data analysts. The work includes designing, building and deploying high availability, robust, resilient and supportable database solutions to support large volumes of data transactions. With a focus on the infrastructure and operational elements of designing and deploying a database solution, the SRE Data Engineer must ensure the databases are highly available, have sufficient capacity in place and are fully resilient across multiple data centres and cloud architectures. **Your role and responsibilities** * Manage MYSQL and NoSQL databases in Development/QA/Production environments including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, replication, upgrades, schema changes, etc. * Perform database health monitoring and diagnostics. * Integrate monitoring, auditing, and alert systems for databases with existing monitoring infrastructure * Design, implement, maintain and automate the appropriate backup and recovery architecture as required * Occasional off-shift availability to resolve Production issues * Work closely with other members of the SRE and R&D teams * Responsible for system performance and reliability * Maintains up-to-date knowledge of database administration and applies these developments to other major projects and initiatives * Ensure proactive engagement in the Incident Management process, working with Operational teams to minimize the impact of database outages * Presents or makes recommendations on best practices regarding data management, data architecture, and data design **Required technical and professional expertise** * Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science preferred) * 3+ year’s experience as an SRE Data Engineer on the following databases * Cassandra * MySQL * Elasticsearch or OpenSearch or Couchbase * Redshift * Experience with AWS Cloud environment * 3+ years Experience in Python * Experience in configuration management and CICD systems like Jenkins and Terraform * Experience working in production environments requiring 99.99% availability **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience in deploying, administrating, tuning, monitoring, and maintaining database technologies * Solid experience in database tuning, design, security, backup, recovery, and archival concepts and procedures * Experience with monitoring systems * Ability to write ETL, using Python or other languages * Excellent communication skills include effectively communicating with technical, and non-technical employees and vendors * Strong problem-solving, testing, and network troubleshooting skills