Site Reliability Engineer II - Database

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

7h•$95,000 - $171,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. In this role, you'll participate in the day to day operations including the integrity, architecture, modeling, security, and performance tuning for our MySQL databases. You'll play a key role in managing and improving the health and stability of our MySQL instances. You'll regularly partner with development and systems groups to provide deep subject matter expertise in various projects.

Requirements

2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
2+ years of experience with SQL database servers
Experience deploying and managing schemas
Experience working with developers, helping them with database development including schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization
Knowledge of backup strategies and disaster recovery scenarios

Responsibilities

Installing, configure, upgrade, and migrate existing databases
Responding to and resolving database related requests from other departments
Defining database requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
Identifying data security related issues and help with improving overall security of the database environment
Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues