At Percona, you'll get a chance to see and work on any database architecture you can imagine. Our Consultants work on projects with a huge variety of companies, from internet startups to established brick-and-mortar publicly traded companies. We're looking for MongoDB experts who can step back and look at the full stack, as well as learn and share their knowledge about other widely used open-source data technologies.
The Consultant will develop relationships with customers, comprehend and fulfill their needs, and maintain their satisfaction through onsite and remote customer engagements. He/she will scope the technical work that is required to ensure the best possible solution is delivered to the customer given the customer’s unique set of business requirements. Additionally, the Consultant will troubleshoot and resolve customer issues of any complexity as the need arises.
You will work remotely and most people work from their homes. Up to 25% travel may be required, both for onsite projects and internal meetings (as safety permits). Access to a reliable high-speed Internet connection is required. This position is for the Americas time zones, and the Consultant must be able to work full-time during US business hours.
What You Will Do
- Perform the entire range of our MongoDB consulting services for customers
- Effectively assess not only the dynamics of the technology, but the people managing it, too
- Create multiple types of documentation, whiteboard solutions, and conduct training as required to ensure the client understands and is satisfied with your solution
- Seamlessly maneuver between talking low-level technical details or high-level strategy depending on the situation
- Maintain proficiency in all Consulting tools, software, and standard operating procedures
- Be an active thought leader via monthly blogging, quarterly webinars, and conference talks/tutorials at least once per year
- Be an active technical leader via weekly contributions to our Experts' forums, email lists, and monthly publishing of KB articles
What You Have Done
- 5+ years of MongoDB administration, including but not limited to the following areas: installation, configuration, upgrades, tuning
- 3+ years of Linux administration experience, including performing hands-on work in the areas networking, hardware, virtualization, containers, scripting, and IO subsystems
- 2+ years of performing the following types of engagements: architecture and design reviews, performance audits, and database migrations
- 2+ years in a consulting role leading both short and long-term projects
- Strong Shell skills
- Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: PHP, Java, Nodejs, Go, Python, Ruby
- Production-based experience with both on-premise and cloud environments, including with customers that run database environments across multiple datacenters/regions, and manage large datasets
- Experience delivering presentations to both technical and management/executive teams
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Vagrant, Consul, etc.
- Experience with Content Management Systems (Drupal, Wordpress, etc.) and eCommerce platforms (Magento, etc.)
- Experience with training development and delivery
- Demonstration of active thought leadership in the MongoDB community (blogs, conference talks, etc.)
- Ability to read and interpret MongoDB code for the purpose of debugging and troubleshooting
- Cross-over experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or ClickHouse
- Experience working with cloud-native applications and containerization technologies e.g. Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure certifications
- Project management experience
Percona is a respected thought leader in the open source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB to open source users globally.
Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have colleagues in more than 40 countries. We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. The growth and development of our staff is a top priority; we provide funding for training, certifications, conferences and more.
Discover what it means to work with some of the smartest people in the industry, who also know how to have fun and are always willing to lend a helping hand. We offer flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and the amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts.
What We Do
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. With Percona's open source database expertise, your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration, and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Our global experts are available 24x7x365 and have worked with over 3,000 clients worldwide – including the largest technology companies.
Percona is the champion of unbiased open source database solutions and provides the best solution for our customers regardless of their database architecture or platform. Our software is 100% free and open source, and is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs over 250 people (and growing!) located in almost 40 countries. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
