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Job Title: GCP Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)
Job Duration: 6+ months
Minimum years of experience required: 5+ years
Type of Hire: w2 contract
Job Details
We're looking for a GCP Database Support/Site Reliability Engineer to manage, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native database systems, with hands-on expertise in Cloud Spanner as a mandatory requirement.
Key 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)
Mandatory Requirements
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
Good To Have
GCP Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification
Experience with Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or AlloyDB
Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code experience
Work arrangement
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