Check out these $8300 or so per month worldwide work-from-home jobs with equipment provided and flexible hours at Percona.
Percona is an open-source software company that provides database related support, consultancy and managed services.
Here are some more details:
Business Development Rep ($78k-$117k/Year)
What You'll Do:
- Create awareness and interest in Percona solutions as a value-add solution with prospects
- Identify and communicate with appropriate key decision makers within prospective clients
- Produce high-quality phone calls and emails that will result in meeting/exceeding monthly goals
- Nurture and manage leads until they are qualified as sales-ready
- Generate additional referrals by leveraging all contacts and utilizing the database to identify key targets
- Document all activity in our CRM system to support sales and management teams, validate activity and lead qualification reports, and provide the sales team with clear details on the prospect’s needs to ensure high-quality transition
- Proactively set up sales appointments for further qualification discussions
Compensation/Benefits:
You can check out some of their benefits here.
Your Attributes:
- Highly motivated individual – you are driven to succeed
- Highly developed level of maturity, self-assurance, personal and professional integrity and an underlying commitment to make things happen
- Prepared to listen, learn and develop your sales skills
Required Qualifications:
- BS or BA degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years technology sales experience
- Experience conducting business and building relationships via phone and email
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience successfully managing multiple priorities simultaneously, maintaining a high-volume pace with the ability to quickly adjust during prospect conversations
- Highly motivated and creative to successfully reach prospects and create conversations
- Ability to document all activity in our CRM system with a high degree of accuracy
- Professional persistence & ability to “think on your feet” and make a compelling introduction
- Working knowledge of Google Apps, Salesforce.com and other related technology
- Ability to work remotely full-time
- Ability to work across multiple time zones within the Americas region
Support Engineer ($105k-$113k/Year)
Job Description:
“Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behavior.
We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments.
This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures.
This is not an entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous.
We are not a call-center operation, we are a team of senior IT folks with a collective knowledge that solves problems for Inc 50. companies and works with some of the largest MySQL deployments in the world.
You’ll be teaming with some of the most well-known database ninjas in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors.
This is a mid-level position, where senior personnel will be assisting you to improve and develop your own skills and become more proficient with databases than you can possibly imagine.
This is a 100% remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.”
Qualifications:
- Good hands-on knowledge of both MySQL and InnoDB
- Be a skilled with some of the MySQL ecosystem of tools and technologies
- Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning
- Know-how of backup solutions such as Xtrabackup, mydumper, etc, and also of Point-in-Time-Recovery
- Some experience with high availability solutions (replication, routers, proxies, etc)
- Exposure and practice with zero-downtime procedures
- Good understanding of monitoring requirements
- Demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems
- 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
- Self-taught and enthused to grow your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve
- Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference or customer visit
- Experience working with customers in English
Preferred (Not Required):
- Experience working in SLA-bound operations
- OpenSource Community contributions (could be a blog)
- Good practice with working over screen-sharing/phone
- Galera / XtraDB Cluster / ProxySQL / Orchestrator
- Cloud Services such as AWS and RDS, Azure, GCP
- Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM) and other monitoring tools
- Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Percona Toolkit suite
- MySQL DBA professional certifications
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MyRocks
- Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker
- Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc)
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