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1330304 - Senior Database Engineer (DI)

Cisco

Remote in the US, Remote in Canada,

1330304 - Senior Database Engineer (DI)

Cisco

Remote in the US, Remote in Canada,
 
Number Of Vacancies: 1
 

ABOUT THE ROLE

In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We write nearly 7 million data points each second globally every day. This data, helps power our Dashboard and gives our customers insight into the state of their networks. As a member of the Data Infrastructure team, you will administer, scale, secure, and maintain our on-prem relational and non-relational database systems. You will work with all Engineering teams throughout Cisco Meraki guiding them towards best practices to meet the data requirements for their use cases.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

  • Work alongside our SRE teams to plan, administer, maintain and secure our PostgreSQL infrastructure across our backend
  • Ensure systems are running at the highest possible performance level by analyzing and tuning queries
  • Review database changes requested by engineering teams for impacts to database designs, design standards, data conversions, naming standards, and documentation
  • Learn about the data and it’s used to make recommendations for improvements in how it is stored and processed
  • Work with Data Engineering team to design, build and maintain ETL pipelines for PG
  • Develop procedures and scripts for data migration
  • Guide engineers on performance tuning and optimization, query optimization, index tuning, caching, buffer tuning, etc.
  • Perform operational DBA duties: installation, database upgrades, patching, implement backup/recovery and monitoring procedures, capacity planning, and site failover/switchover
  • Automate schema management with tools like Liquibase, ActiveRecords, etc.
  • Support architectural changes with new database environments in both public and private clouds

ABOUT YOU

  • Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL relational databases
  • Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems
  • Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage
  • Proven track record of automating tasks
  • Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
  • Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, etc.
  • Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great engineers come from diverse backgrounds.

About Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an expansive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

 

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

 

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

 

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