Senior Consultant

The Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing global specialist in the data space. Recently acquired, they are investing heavily in their sales, pre-sales and solutioning teams across the globe, and seek an experienced Senior Consultant for APAC.

The individual hired into this position will serve a critical role and every day will be different. You may be focused on large scale architectural design one day, or conducting database health checks another. A passion for data, technology and customer satisfaction are key to this role!

Responsibilities

• Deliver custom and pre-defined professional services to customers either remotely or on-site as per customer needs. Professional services encompasses a range of technical capabilities from a simple estate health check to a large scale architectural design,
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle including programming, debugging, and creating new features, specifically around the requirements of top customers
• Writing, debugging and testing code
• Design, estimate, develop, test and document new features and tools over the entire lifecycle from inception to publication and beyond
• Coordinate and communicate with enterprise architects, customers, developers and product management in order to obtain details of feature specification
• Risk assessment of larger system designs and recommendation of alternatives to customer and engineering teams
• Functional and regression testing of server, components and tooling
• Writing test cases for reruns and automating test scenarios for regression testing purposes
• Test result analysis, creation of reproducible test cases and defect reporting
• Collaboration with development to maintain the official code branches and regression test suites
• Facilitate efforts to reproduce customer issues, create test cases, and provide patches for production systems to enable targeted collection of debug data and increase customer uptime

Qualifications

• Good written and spoken communication skills in English
• Good knowledge of Linux, and hands-on experience with everyday maintenance/administration
• Good knowledge of SQL, familiarity with NoSQL concepts
• Experience with at least some of the following: SQL optimizers, concurrent/distributed computing, ACID storage
• Solid knowledge of C/C++, good knowledge of CMake and testing frameworks
• Basic shell scripting skills
• Work experience with version control (git) and defect tracking systems
• Understanding of DevOps and agile development practices
• 2+ years of work experience in software development and/or testing

Bonus Experience and Skills

• MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB or MongoDB development expertise
• Experience with open source development
• Mac or Windows as a primary development platform
• Knowledge of MySQL/MariaDB DBMS, internals, SQL dialects, connectors
• Knowledge of Perl, Python, Bash, Java
• Experience with popular database performance benchmarks and code profilers
• Familiarity with databases in the cloud
• Work experience with cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud) and virtualization tools (QEMU, Docker)
• Familiarity with NoSQL products/concepts
• Familiarity with systemd, SELinux
• Experience working remotely in geo-distributed teams

Location

• This opportunity is a Remote position, open in a few select locations in APAC, and will require some occasional travel.

My client is an equal opportunity employer