Be responsible for maintaining and administering highly-available systems in a 24/7 cloud environment. You will work with a fast-paced, skilled team of database administrators and developers across multiple high-profile projects. If you are a top-notch DBA and looking for your next challenge, apply now!
Responsibilities:
- Create, maintain, and administer cloud databases in a highly-available 24/7 environment
- Ensure databases are highly secure, available, and recoverable
- Proactively monitor and tune databases for maximum performance
- Install, configure, patch, and upgrade database software
- Create documentation around impact analysis of changes
- Create performance indicators to locate and correct problems
- Handle seamless failover and recovery
- Manage monitoring and alerting for performance and uptime
- Provide database technical support for application development teams
- Oversee upgrades to application databases for new releases
Requirements:
- 3 years of experience in database administration with strong replication and high availability knowledge with MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of NoSQL cloud databases such as AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra.
- Ability to work in a DevOps mode
- Ability to handle multiple read instances
- Strong performance tuning skills in a large database environment serving millions of users
- Ability to run trace reports and analyze results, then recommend options for problem resolution
- Expertise in running and administrating databases in a cloud environment
- Storage and capacity planning
- Bachelor’s in computer science or related field
Recommended Qualifications:
- Understanding of cloud computing platforms such as AWS and Azure
- Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Terraform and Puppet/Chef,
- Experience with cloud database services such as SQL Azure DB and RDS Aurora/MySQL/PostgreSQL
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