Database Administrator

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator to join our ranks, in the Bucharest offices. 

Responsibilities:

• Setting-up and maintaining company’s Databases.
• Setting-up and maintaining replication, High Availability, backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Monitoring health and performance for several servers on a daily basis.
• Reporting query performance issues to the product teams (and suggesting optimizations);
• Troubleshooting and fixing performance issues (tuning configuration options).
• Working with several product teams to make sure their queries are designed for performance.
• Involved in the database design process, advises the developers on how to design new databases and how to optimize the structure of existing databases.
• Involved in the definition of the Databases setup and evolution strategy: hardware, virtualization, cloud, etc.

Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge and experience in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database architecture and system design.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database performance tuning principles.
• Experience as a DBA in a high traffic, transactional environment.
• Experience with High Available database systems.
• Experience with scalability mechanisms for DBs.
• Ability to work cooperatively with software engineers and system administrators.
• Problem-solving expertise and attention to detail
• Experience in Linux environment with understanding of the operating system.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in physical and logical database design.
• Support operations for both development and production databases.
• Experience and success in automating administrative tasks.
• Ability to work on call and provide 24/7 production support.
• Self-motivated, eager to learn and face challenges.