GCP Cloud Spanner SRE: Database Reliability & Optimization

TechDigital Group; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDigital Group in New Jersey seeks a GCP Database Support/SRE to manage, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native database systems, with hands-on Cloud Spanner expertise as a mandatory requirement.

You will design, deploy, monitor, and optimize Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Firestore; automate tasks with Terraform and scripts; and lead incident management with on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Spanner (schema design, performance tuning, monitoring).
• Strong SQL and distributed database concepts (consistency, sharding, replication).
• Experience with GCP IAM, networking, and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Logging).
• Familiarity with incident management and on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage GCP database services (Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore).
• Monitor performance, availability, and reliability of production database systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents, ensuring SLA/SLO compliance.
• Optimize Cloud Spanner schemas, queries, and instance configurations for scale and cost.
• Implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on database architecture and migrations.
• Automate operational tasks using Terraform/scripting (Python/Bash).

Skills

GCP

Cloud Spanner

SQL

Distributed databases

Terraform

Incident management

On-call rotations

Monitoring

BigQuery

Tools

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

IAM

Terraform

Python

Bash

Job description

TechDigital Group in New Jersey seeks a GCP Database Support/SRE to manage, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native database systems, with hands-on Cloud Spanner expertise as a mandatory requirement.

You will design, deploy, monitor, and optimize Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Firestore; automate tasks with Terraform and scripts; and lead incident management with on-call rotations.