Database Administrator

The person in this role will be working closely with Developers, DevOps, Sysadmin, and Network Engineers to build reliable and scalable services. Our client is looking for a team player who is proactive, collaborative, adaptable, and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Installing, monitoring, maintaining, upgrading, and tuning databases supporting a network of websites/business units
  
• Performance optimization, rewriting queries, introducing indexes, table partitioning and schema maintenance
  
• Implementations of backup and disaster recovery solutions
  
• Complete tasks required to maintain service levels of project delivery and ensure the availability of all features and functions
  

Requirements

• Proactive, collaborative, and a team player
  
• Solid understanding of the Unix systems programming and administration philosophy
  
• Strong Linux working knowledge (preferably RedHat/CentOS family)
  
• Proficiency in MySQL and PostgreSQL
  
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Couchbase
  
• Experience supporting development, testing, and production databases
  
• Experience setting up replication, sharding, and other high-availability solutions
  
• Working expertise with at least one scripting language: Python or Bash
  

Bonus Points

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields
  
• Experience working with Kubernetes (or any other orchestration frameworks)
  
• Experience working with Percona Toolkit such as pt-online-schema-change
  
• Experience working with AWS (RDS/EC2/Redshift) or Google Cloud Platform
  
• Experience working with Ansible, Terraform or Puppet
  
• Experience working with Docker containers