What does it take to be a Percona Affiliate?

• 5+ years of experience administering PostgreSQL

• 5+ years of experience performing architecture and design reviews, performance audits and performance troubleshooting

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills

• Strong knowledge of database architecture, internals, backup solutions, performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning

• Strong understanding of replication and experience with multiple high availability tools and methods

• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and Operators

• Ability to run remote and on-site training courses for Operators and developers as required

• Excellent written and spoken English

• Ability to perform database and Linux systems consulting

• Ability to talk to and collaborate with a customer, envision their problem, and whiteboard solutions

• Ability to figure out how to implement true highly available systems, not just at the database level, but throughout the entire stack

• Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues

•  Knowledgeable on a wide variety of technology, but the experience and wisdom to know when to use it and why

• Ability to  talk low-level technical details or high level strategy depending on the situation

What will make you stand out:

• Experience PostgreSQL

• Galera / Percona XtraDB Cluster, HAProxy, ProxySQL, Orchestrator

• Cloud Services such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or hosting providers like Rackspace

• Nagios, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and other monitoring tools

• Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef

• PHP, Java, Nodejs, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.

• Networking, system administration, hardware, virtualization, containers, scripting, IO subsystems

• Percona Toolkit suite

• MyRocks 

• Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker

• Professional certifications in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL