Role: GCP Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)
Location USA Remote
Contract
Rate $85
Job Title: GCP Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)
Start Date: ASAP
Time Zone:East preferred, but Central is fine
Skill set Requirement:Strong Spanner skills
Location requirements: US only
Role Overview:
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