Database Reliability Engineering Manager

Role Overview

As the Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) Manager, you will lead a team of expert
DBREs responsible for the health, performance, automation, and scalability of Tekionsdata backbone. Your focus will be on operational excellence, automation first, andcontinuous improvement of reliability and efficiency for our MongoDB, MySQL, andElasticsearch clusters. You'll mentor your team, drive innovation in database automation(using Go or Python), and collaborate with product, engineering, and Cloud teams.Key Responsibilities• Team Leadership & Strategy: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performingDatabase Reliability Engineering team, fostering a culture of technicalexcellence, ownership, and collaboration.• Database Operations & Reliability: Oversee the reliability, performance,availability, and scalability of MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch acrossmultiple environments and regions.• Automation & Engineering: Architect and drive automation for databaseprovisioning, scaling, backups, upgrades, patching, and recovery using Go or

Python. Establish standards for Infrastructure as Code and self-service database
management.• Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement and enhance automatedmonitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and self-healing solutions. Lead majorincident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.• Collaboration: Partner with SRE, CloudOps, Security, and development teamsto understand requirements, drive database reliability improvements, and supportfeature launches.• Best Practices & Documentation: Define and enforce database reliability bestpractices, documentation, runbooks, and automation guides. Promote DBREstandards and knowledge sharing.• Capacity & Cost Management: Monitor capacity, forecast growth, and work withengineering and product teams on cost-effective database scaling.• Security & Compliance: Ensure security, compliance, and data protection in alldatabase operations and automation solutions.Required Qualifications• Bachelor or master’s in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practicalexperience.• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, DBRE, or SRE roles, with atleast 3+ years in a technical/team leadership or management position.• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating MongoDB, MySQL, andElasticsearch (good to have).• Strong programming skills in Go or Python for database automation and tooling.• Proven ability to design and implement automation for database lifecycleoperations, monitoring, and self-healing.• Expertise in building, running, and scaling highly available database clusters(replication, sharding, backup/restore, performance tuning).• Strong knowledge of database security, access controls, patching, andcompliance practices.• Excellent communication, incident leadership, and cross-functional collaborationskills.• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing technical talent.