Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

About WebBeds

Launched in 2013 WebBeds is a global marketplace for the travel trade providing powerful distribution solutions that make selling and buying travel products easier. It sources accommodation and destination services from travel suppliers aggregates and merchandises that content in the WebBeds platform then distributes it to its global network of travel trade buyers who sell to the travelling public.

Hotels and other suppliers - global and regional hotel chains independent hotels apartments resorts attractions transfer and sightseeing companies and more - can sell their products to a global network of online and offline travel buyers through robust solutions that provide greater inventory control to simplify distribution and leverage WebBeds enhanced analytics to inform inventory optimisation choices saving costs and increasing revenue.

Travel buyers - online travel agencies retail travel agents corporate travel managers tour operators wholesalers tourism boards super apps DMCs group providers airlines and more - can integrate the hundreds of thousands of hotels and ground services in the WebBeds marketplace through simple and seamless API connectivity or they can search shop and book online through one of WebBeds trade only booking sites.

WebBeds operates globally through four geographic regions Europe Asia Pacific MEA (Middle East and Africa) and Americas - with over 1900 travel professionals working in 120 cities across 50 countries worldwide.

Find out more about the WebBeds business at

WebBeds is a travel brand of the Web Travel Group (ASX: WEB).

How will you make an impact

Were looking for a Senior DBA to join our Platform Engineering team in Palma. This isnt a keep the lights on job. Youll be hands-on across a large varied cloud-first database estate — tuning performance hardening resilience guiding migrations (were actively moving SQL Server workloads to Aurora PostgreSQL via Babelfish) and helping product teams build data layers that scale. If you enjoy solving hard problems mentoring others and having a real say in architectural decisions youll fit right in.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the health of our production databases across AWS — Aurora PostgreSQL Aurora MySQL SQL Server on RDS DynamoDB ElastiCache for Redis and MongoDB. Monitoring tuning backups DR — the full lifecycle.
• Lead database migrations and re-platforming projects including our ongoing SQL Server Aurora PostgreSQL (Babelfish) effort and Aurora cluster splits for high-traffic workloads.
• Tune performance where it hurts most — query optimisation indexing strategy partitioning and capacity planning. Youll use Query Store Extended Events Performance Insights and Datadog to find and fix bottlenecks before they become incidents.
• Design for resilience — shape our disaster recovery processes cross-account RDS access patterns immutable backups and failover testing.
• Partner with engineering teams on schema design data migrations and query review — helping dev teams ship faster without creating tech debt.
• Champion security & compliance — encryption access controls audit logging GDPR-aligned data hygiene and secrets management.
• Mentor and level up other DBAs and engineers who work with data. Share what you know write it down and raise the bar.

The skills we would love to see in your suitcase!

Must haves

• 5 years as a DBA with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity.
• Deep hands-on experience with SQL Server and MySQL / PostgreSQL (ideally both). Comfortable writing reading and refactoring complex queries and stored procedures.
• Solid track record running production databases in AWS — RDS Aurora parameter groups snapshots cross-region replication Performance Insights.
• Real experience with NoSQL stores (MongoDB DynamoDB Redis or similar) and knowing when to reach for them vs a relational DB.
• Strong grasp of backup DR and high-availability patterns.
• Scripting skills in Python Bash or PowerShell for automation.

Nice-to-haves

• Exposure to Aurora PostgreSQL Babelfish or other SQL Server migration work.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling (Datadog).
• Experience supporting high-volume low-latency systems — travel e-commerce fintech or similar
• Familiarity with data lake / analytics patterns (S3 Athena DBeaver).

How you work

• You explain the why behind decisions not just the how.
• Youre pragmatic — you know the perfect fix isnt always the right fix today.
• Youre comfortable pushing back constructively when something doesnt smell right.
• English is your working language (written and spoken); Spanish is a plus but not required.

Why choose us as your next destination

We are super proud of our dedicated team of friendly energetic & passionate professionals. Our people are key to the success of our business & everybody at WebBeds has their own unique role to play as we continue to drive the company forward.

Over 50 different languages are spoken by our workforce but whether working from offices in Dubai or London or out in the field in Johannesburg or Buenos Aires we all share the common goal to take pride in what we do & to deliver our partners with unbeatable service & support.

• International highly skilled group of experts from all around the globe
• Dynamic environment with the chance to grow influence & impact change
• Disruptive fast-growing market leader within travel & endless possibilities
• Culture built on collaboration empowerment and innovation

Click for more information about life at WebBeds : out more about the WebBeds business at #LI-Hybrid