NoSQL Database Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)

at  Live Nation

Job Summary:
JOB DESCRIPTION –NoSQL Database Engineer
Location: United Kingdom, Remote
Division: Ticketmaster
Contract Terms: Permanent

YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS)

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Experience working in a distributed remote environment.
• Natural drive to learn new technologies, participate in PoCs, and provide the best datastore solutions to meet business requirements.
• High inclination to document often and share knowledge with the team.
• Engineering mindset with motivation to automate repetitive manual tasks.
• Understanding and willingness to adopt SDLC and Agile best practices.
• Proficient in Linux and Unix shell environments.Ability to work independently with a strong level of self-motivation.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS)

• Experience working with the infrastructure of open-source databases (e.g., Apache Cassandra/DSE, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Strong conceptual understanding of high availability and failover design.
• Database and OS performance tuning and performance testing experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for resolving issues independently.
• Experience with cloud solutions (e.g., AWS EC2, AMI, EBS, Route53, CloudWatch, DynamoDB).
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code deployment.
• Demonstrable usage experience of Git and designing version control process methodologies.
• Knowledge of database and OS observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong fundamentals of Linux/Unix system knowledge.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/Kafka is a plus.
• Proven experience with programming languages in a software engineering or data engineering role (e.g., Python, Django)

• Continuously improving the reliability and performance of existing open-source database platforms, both cloud and on-prem solutions
• Collaborate with other application engineering teams to deploy Cassandra cluster, schema design and performance tuning to meet business requirements for critical products in Ticketmaster.. Provide sufficient support for scaling, upgrade and other operation tasks.
• Plan the growth and manage the capacity and the life-cycle of the current production open-source database platforms.
• Strategize on building proactive monitoring and alerting to pre-empt outages
• Support OnCall for GMT and IST time zone

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS)

• Experience working with the infrastructure of open-source databases (e.g., Apache Cassandra/DSE, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Strong conceptual understanding of high availability and failover design.
• Database and OS performance tuning and performance testing experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for resolving issues independently.
• Experience with cloud solutions (e.g., AWS EC2, AMI, EBS, Route53, CloudWatch, DynamoDB).
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code deployment.
• Demonstrable usage experience of Git and designing version control process methodologies.
• Knowledge of database and OS observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong fundamentals of Linux/Unix system knowledge.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/Kafka is a plus.
• Proven experience with programming languages in a software engineering or data engineering role (e.g., Python, Django).