Database SRE

Position: Database SRE
Location: Alpharetta, Georgia
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 179116

Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Database Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and operate mission-critical database platforms within a fast-paced enterprise environment. This role emphasizes operational excellence, reliability, resiliency, automation, and continuous improvement across multiple database technologies. This is not a development role. We are looking for hands-on database professionals who thrive in production operations, take ownership of issues, understand urgency, and are passionate about improving systems, processes, and themselves. The ideal candidate views reliability as a product, proactively identifies risks before they become incidents, and continuously seeks opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and improve platform stability.

Responsibilities:

• Database Operations & Reliability:
  • Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain enterprise database platforms.
  • Ensure availability, performance, recoverability, and security of production database environments.
  • Monitor database platforms and associated infrastructure, responding rapidly to incidents and service degradations.
  • Lead troubleshooting efforts for database, operating system, storage, replication, and application connectivity issues.
  • Execute failovers, disaster recovery testing, and recovery procedures.
  • Partner with application teams to provide database guidance and operational support.
• Platform Engineering:
  • Deploy, maintain, and optimize database infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
  • Implement scalable, resilient database solutions.
  • Evaluate and recommend improvements to architecture, monitoring, automation, and operational processes.
  • Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform lifecycle management.
• Automation & Continuous Improvement:
  • Develop and maintain automation solutions using Python, Shell, Ansible, or similar technologies.
  • Help eliminate manual operational activities through engineering and automation.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, reporting, and operational workflows.
  • Drive incremental improvements that reduce risk, improve reliability, and increase operational efficiency.
• Performance & Incident Management:
  • Analyze and resolve database performance issues.
  • Troubleshoot replication, backup/recovery, storage, network, and infrastructure-related incidents.
  • Participate in root cause analysis and drive permanent corrective actions.
  • Review operational metrics and trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Operational Excellence:
  • Maintain accurate operational documentation, standards, and procedures.
  • Generate and present operational metrics, service health indicators, and reliability reporting.
  • Participate in incident response activities.
  • Demonstrate strong ownership from issue identification through resolution.

Qualifications:

• Strong experience administering enterprise database platforms, including Sybase ASE and Oracle RAC.
• Experience with additional database technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar platforms is a plus.
• Proficiency in installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with database replication technologies such as SAP Replication Server, Data Guard, and HVR (preferred).
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Ansible, and Shell scripting.
• Understanding of storage, networking, operating systems, and infrastructure services.
• Experience with Veritas Cluster Server, ASM, LVM, and SAN technologies.
• Familiarity with enterprise operational tooling such as Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

What Success Looks Like:

• Takes ownership and drives issues to closure.
• Understands the urgency required to support critical production environments.
• Continuously improves systems, processes, and operational effectiveness.
• Learns quickly and adapts to new technologies.
• Balances operational stability with engineering innovation.
• Communicates clearly and effectively during incidents and high-pressure situations.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of accountability and professionalism.
• Leaves the platform better than they found it every day.

Preferred Mindset:

• Customer-obsessed.
• Accountable and dependable.
• Urgent without being reckless.
• Continuously learning.
• Driven to automate repetitive work.
• Detail-oriented.
• Collaborative but willing to lead.
• Focused on long-term platform reliability rather than short-term fixes.

About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.ptrglobal.com

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Pay Range: $50 - $63/hour

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