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Degreed is the upskilling platform that empowers growth and innovation through lifelong learning. We integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers—skill insights, LMSs, courses, videos, articles, and projects—and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles, and goals. Degreed enables employers to create a dynamic culture of learning to attract, grow and retain talent, drive individual development, and deliver business results.
The SRE Team are looking for an experienced Database Administrator who is excited about scaling, supporting, and architecting scalable databases to join our team. In this position you will provide solutions and support for our SQL Server Database in Azure for the European or APAC time zone. You will provide technical leadership and support to Engineers and work with varying technical teams to implement reliable, robust, and scalable solutions for our database as well as fix issues and drive the Degreed system forward. We value individuals who are lifelong learners and passionate about taking on new challenges with a continuous improvement mindset.
The ideal candidate for this role will need to be able to work during European and/or Australian business hours and must be comfortable communicating asynchronously. This role will be based in Bengaluru, India. After an in-office onboarding period, this position will be remote-first but with requirements for recurring in-office days for team syncs and group gatherings. Candidates will also be required to travel internationally 1-2 times annually for full company gatherings.
Day in the Life
Participate in troubleshooting production issues and work with the team to continuously evaluate and improve the quality, reliability and scalability of the Degreed platform
Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents or events which occur on all of our production databases
Continuously review and evaluate the resources on the database and improvements to the performance of the database
On-call for production issues following an around the sun model for their region
Contribute to the solutions for the team with design, architecture and estimation.
Build relationships with architects, engineers and other stakeholders across Degreed and influence technology decisions based on data
Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to existing engineering processes including deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Participating in the rotating production database support and release process
Who You Are
There are only a handful of folks who meet all qualifications. We care more about hiring engineers that have a track record of shipping impactful, quality software than checking all of the boxes. So whether you meet all the qualifications or a partial set, we want to hear from you:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in SQL Databases specifically Azure SQL or SQL Server
3+ years of demonstrated experience of implementing robust distributed/scalable systems preferably for a modern SaaS application in the cloud
Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, technical and non-technical. We always need engaging and clear documentation for our technical and non-technical teammates. Most of this will be done via Confluence or Slack.
Ability and willingness to mentor other engineers.
Solution-driven with the ability to understand the big picture
Lifelong learner and passionate about discovering new things and taking on new challenges.
What Sets You Apart
Advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
2+ years of experience providing technical leadership to a US-based remote, distributed team
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform
Experience with a wide range of Relational Databases and Non-relational Databases
Experience with Containers and Serverless architecture
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and/or Snowflake.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
Degreed is a remote-first company, however our roles are open to in-office or flex work if you live in a city with a physical office location (when it is safe to return to the office). This role has the opportunity to operate 100% virtually from your home office. We primarily collaborate with our US and International colleagues through virtual meetings (Zoom), email, and Slack. In this role, you will be required to operate a laptop computer (PC or Mac available), computer software platforms, and other office productivity machinery as necessary. Due to the nature of this role, you must be able to remain stationary for extended periods, and must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication.
Additional Information
Degreed provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Degreed will provide reasonable accommodations to all qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Degreed uses the E-Verify employment verification program.
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