Database Administrator (DBA)

This position is responsible for the quality maintenance and performance of data stores across company along with its clients and partners. As a Database Administrator, you will be tasked with enhancing data management practices and providing recommendations and best practices to development teams as required.

Responsibilities:

1. Perform Database capacity planning, installation, configuration, database design,

   migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, as well as backup and

   data recovery operations.

2. Act as a subject matter expert for data management and interact with internal and external teams to troubleshoot and provide best practices regarding database implementation and maintenance with our core product.

3. Contributes and assists with efforts/ projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of data systems for internal and external projects.

4. Write and tune SQL queries and review schema designs for optimal performance.

5. Implement and maintain DBMS and data maintenance pipelines/processes to

   optimize data operations.

6. Plan and execute data migration plans for complex systems with large datasets.

7. Proactively and regularly make recommendations for data system improvements.

8. Collect, collate and present metrics on data systems to be used by internal and

   external parties.

9. Engage with multiple teams across the business including but not limited to the Core Development team, Managed Services team, partners and customers to provide database management best practices and enhancements.

Requirements:

1. A post-secondary degree in computer science or a related field

2. 8+ years of experience in database administration, information technology, database

   architecture, or a related field.

3. Extensive experience with Relational and Non-Relational database technologies

   (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB).

4. Experience with Data Warehousing technologies such as Snowflake or Redshift is nice to have.

5. Strong command of SQL and database server tools.

6. Master database tuner can interpret and explain plans in multiple servers and

   understand the query optimizations required to improve them.

7. Advanced knowledge of database security and performance monitoring standards.

8. Understanding of relational modelling and strong mathematical and statistical

   knowledge.

9. Experience with a few programming languages and the ability to troubleshoot

   connection strings and pools.

10. Minimum 3 years of experience with a Cloud Database Service (e.g. AWS RDS, Azure

    PostgreSQL).

11. Minimum 2 years experience with PostgreSQL maintenance tasks (Backup and

    Restore. Multi-region replication etc.).

12. Experience with cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure, OCI) and queuing services

    (Kafka, Eventhubs, ActiveMQ).

13. Working experience with Datalakes or BigData technologies is nice to have.

14. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail.