Senior Application Database Administrator
Heredia - Costa Rica
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Job Summary
The Senior Application Database Administrator plays a key role in designing supporting and improving cloud-based databases that power modern applications. This person partners closely with engineering DevOps and platform teams to ensure databases are reliable scalable secure and optimized for performance. This is a hands-on role with strong technical leadership where you will guide best practices and help teams build solutions that work well in cloud environments while supporting business-critical applications. You will report to the Software Development Agile Developer.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design performance and reliability of cloud-based application-facing databases
- Partner with engineering teams to build scalable resilient and cost-efficient database solutions
- Guide best practices for database design schema changes and performance tuning
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues leading root cause analysis when needed
- Implement standards guardrails and automation to improve database operations
- Mentor team members and support knowledge sharing across engineering and database communities
Qualifications :
- 7 years of experience working with application databases or in DBA roles including cloud environments
- Strong expertise in at least one relational database platform (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Server Oracle)
- Hands-on experience with cloud-managed database services and modern architectures
- Advanced skills in SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Experience supporting production systems and making sound technical decisions independently
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across diverse teams
Additional Information :
Benefits/Perks:
Our benefits include: Medical life and dental insurance Asociacion Solidarista International Share Save Plan Flex Work/Work from home Paid time off Annual Performance Bonus Education Reimbursement Family Bonding Bereavement Leave Referral Program and more.
This is a fully remote job opportunity. #LI-Remote
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Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
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