Database Site Reliability Engineer (Database Operations)

Denken Solutions, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Denken Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Database Site Reliability Engineer to support mission-critical database platforms in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

This role emphasizes reliability, resiliency, automation, and continuous improvement across multiple database technologies, with a strong focus on production operations rather than development. The ideal candidate treats reliability as a product and proactively identifies risks while driving automation to improve platform

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Deploy, maintain, and optimize database infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Evaluate and recommend improvements to architecture, monitoring, automation, and operational processes.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform lifecycle management.
• 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.

Job description

• 10 hours/ day (Sunday - Wednesday, 7 am - 5 pm)
• Database Site Reliability Engineer (Database Operations)

Position Summary:

• 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 is focused on 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.

Key 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.
• Deploy, maintain, and optimize database infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Evaluate and recommend improvements to architecture, monitoring, automation, and operational processes.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform lifecycle management.
• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong experience administering enterprise database platforms, including:
• Sybase ASE
• Oracle RAC
• Additional database technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar platforms are a plus.

Experience performing:

• Configuration
• Patching
• Performance tuning
• Backup and recovery
• High availability and disaster recovery

Experience with database replication technologies including:

• SAP Replication Server
• Data Guard
• HVR (preferred)

Experience with automation and scripting:

• Python
• Ansible
• 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.

The successful candidate:

• 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:

• We hire for attitude as much as technical skill.

We're looking for individuals who are:

• 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