About the role
Responsibilities Job Description
- Implement best practices for database management, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
- A passion for staying updated with the latest industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in database administration and automation.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Lead efforts to optimize database performance and resource utilization.
- Develop and maintain database monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address issues.
- Investigate and resolve complex database-related issues, providing technical expertise and guidance to the team.
- Design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Conduct regular audits and assessments to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Passionate about integrating AI-driven insights to build self-healing database infrastructures and autonomous tuning pipelines.
- Mentor and guide junior database engineers to build a high-performing team.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for database-related incidents.
- Flexible and adaptable to work across time zones.
Requirements Primary Skills
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of experience in database management, administration, and performance optimization
- Must have expertise in building, configuring, securing, and managing MySQL to ensure optimal performance
- Experience in large-scale cloud deployments with expertise in AWS, with Azure or GCP as a bonus
- Proficiency in cloud-native database technologies like RDS and Aurora.
- Advanced knowledge of database security, backup, recovery, replication, and performance monitoring
- Experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB would be an added advantage
- Basic exposure to configuration management tools like Chef/Puppet
- Familiarity with Terraform for database changes
- Experience with using GitHub for version control and collaboration
- Relevant certifications in database administration, automation, or related fields are beneficial
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