The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.

You are responsible for:

Operate and improve the RDBMS systems serving Wikimedia projects
Respond to common database issues, following documented procedures
Collaborate with SRE and other teams across the organization to ensure their specific database needs are met on an ongoing basis
Perform day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia's public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration... troubleshooting)
Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools
Monitor systems, services and service clusters, optimize performance and resource utilization
Participate in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia's production infrastructure
Share our values and work in accordance with them

Requirements
Skills and Experience:

2+ years experience in a DBA role as part of a team
3+ years experience with Linux in a production environment
Knowledge and experience of (Free and Open Source) RDBMS (preferably MariaDB or MySQL) administration (understanding of and experience with replication is essential) and support, debugging query performance and schema design
Comfortable with shell and at least one of the scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
Passion for automating tasks and processes
Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:

Experience working with or as a part of SRE/Operations/DevOps teams
Experience with NoSQL products (Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.)
Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/redis, MySQL) - MediaWiki familiarity would be great
Developing Free and Open Source software, or being part of an open-source community
Nairobi Kenya

Salary Criteria