Open-Source Database Administrator

Sofia - Bulgaria

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Akkodis:

Akkodis is a global digital engineering consulting company that enables companies to advance in their digital transformation. Our 50000 tech experts across 30 countries combine best-in-class technologies and cross industry knowledge to drive purposeful innovation for a more sustainable tomorrow.

We have over 20 years of experience in Bulgaria delivering cutting-edge solutions in the IT Software Cloud and Digital fields. Now we are looking for an Open-Source Database Administrator to join our team!

Position Highlights

The Open-Source Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting maintaining and optimizing open-source database platforms for customers across cloud and on-prem environments. The role focuses on ensuring high availability performance security observability and operational excellence for MySQL PostgreSQL and MongoDB workloads. The DBA must be experienced in monitoring and metric-driven operations and work closely with Development and DevOps teams to ensure databases are reliable endpoints in application lifecycles.

Main responsibilities:

Database Administration (MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB)
Perform L2/L3 support for production and non-production open-source database platforms.
Install configure upgrade and patch MySQL PostgreSQL and MongoDB clusters.
Manage replication clustering HA and failover architectures (e.g. MySQL Replication Group Replication PostgreSQL Streaming Replication MongoDB Replica Sets).
Handle performance tuning query optimization and indexing strategies.
Perform capacity planning storage optimization and scaling analysis.
Troubleshoot database errors performance issues or incidents to minimize downtime.
Monitoring Metrics & Observability
Design and implement advanced monitoring for open-source databases using: Prometheus / Grafana; CloudWatch / Azure Monitor; ELK / OpenSearch
Build and maintain dashboards for health performance latency and replication status.
Configure alerting rules SLOs and performance indicators for proactive issue detection.
Automate log analysis and anomaly detection.
Collaboration With Development & DevOps Teams
Work with Dev and DevOps engineers to ensure DB endpoints meet application and microservice requirements.
Support database integration into CI/CD pipelines.
Review schema designs SQL queries and application-level data flows.
Cloud & Platform Experience
At least one major cloud required (AWS or Azure)
Provisioning and maintaining DB instances on AWS RDS Aurora Azure Database services or IaaS deployments.
Implementing backup/restore strategies using cloud-native tools.
Understanding networking IAM roles security groups firewalls and data encryption in cloud environments.
Automation & Scripting
Develop automation for DB maintenance tasks using:Bash/Python/Ansible / Terraform
Create automated backup recovery and DR workflows.
Build self-service operational scripts for common DBA tasks.
Security & Compliance
Implement role-based access auditing and encryption at rest/in transit.

Main requirements:

Min 5 years experience as an Open-Source DBA.
Strong hands-on experience with MySQL PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Experience in HA replication and performance optimization.
Experience with database monitoring and metrics tooling.
Experience supporting databases as endpoints for Dev / DevOps environments.
Designing and managing monitoring stacks:Prometheus Grafana; ELK / OpenSearch;CloudWatch / Azure Monitor
Expertise in at least one major cloud: AWS or Azure
Scripting with Python & Bash
Automation using Ansible Terraform
Supporting databases in CI/CD pipeline
Kubernetes experience: StatefulSets Operators Storage Classes
Strong problem-solving incident management and analytical skills.
Bachelor degree in Computer science or similar
AWS certification is preferred.

What we offer:

Competitive remuneration package
Referral bonus program
24 days annual paid leave
Additional health insurance (outpatient & hospital medical care dental care coverage of dioptric glasses and more)
Free Psychological Counselling via Green Line and on the spot
Newborn or newly adopted child bonus
Food vouchers - 76.70 EUR/month
Upskilling & reskilling training programs and e-learning hub
Recognition awards
Sports cards (partially covered by the employer) and company sports initiatives
Special company discounts
Various social and charity initiatives

United by our passion for talent and technology we look at the world differently.
The future wont wait its time to make incredible happen. Are you ready

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority

About Akkodis:Akkodis is a global digital engineering consulting company that enables companies to advance in their digital transformation. Our 50000 tech experts across 30 countries combine best-in-class technologies and cross industry knowledge to drive purposeful innovation for a more sustainable...