Database Administrator

Who we are:

Centiro is a Swedish software company with 650+ colleagues. Our solutions empower marquee brands and finer supply chains in 175+ countries. We believe in enabling and empowering commerce for companies with winning aspirations who seek to make a difference. Core focus is to connect and enable cloud-based delivery and service networks in the world of digital. Centiro has received numerous awards and honors, including Great Place to Work® Legend and Sweden's No. 1 Workplace in the Large Organizations category for 2021. Founded in 1998, with offices in Sweden, India, the UK, and the US.

To know more about us, please visit www.centiro.com

Purpose – Always with our culture at heart

Role Overview:

• As a Database administrator, you will have overall responsibility for our databases infrastructure.
• Centiro has a flat organization with short decision-making ways where you as a coworker can influence your everyday life.
• You will be part of a team with mixed skills whose responsibility is daily operation, problem solving, analysis and design.
• Your role as database administrator will be central to the operation of our systems.
• Having experience of infrastructure management and managing servers in on-prem Data Centers, Azure and Google and able to manage & patch the servers and troubleshoot as and when required would be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performance optimization and trend analysis.
• Daily operations and manage existing databases
• Maintain and develop routines for operating database servers
• Manage updates to new versions of SQL Server and MongoDB
• Automate existing routines for more efficient management
• Manage database permissions and security aspects of database management
• Investigate and resolve database related issues/problems
• Manage high availability, RTO/RPO and retention of data

Who are you?

• We are looking for a talent with at least 4 years of technical experience and experience in SQL Server & MongoDB Server, with knowledge about:
• Windows clusters, availability groups and log shipping, installation, upgrading, and migrating
• SQL Server
• Indexing, index management, statistics, integrity checks, configuration, and patching
• Windows & Linux Server, SQL Server & MongoDB, and the Transact-SQL query language
• Working experience on MongoDB (mandatory)
• Working knowledge on Devops (preferred)
• Working knowledge on Cloud - Azure, Google cloud (mandatory)
• Working knowledge on Backup and Restore methodology - Database + Server (mandatory)
• Proactive with analysing database environment health utilizing monitoring tools
• Query tuning & performance optimization (preferred)
• Work closely with developers and assist them with providing query tuning recommendations
• Ability to create scripts in PowerShell or other language
• Experience with virtualization platforms, e.g. Hyper-V and/or VMware is a plus.
• Experience in managing infrastructure on Azure & Google is a plus.

Soft Skills & Values

As we work globally, it is important that you can shift focus quickly. It is also of the utmost importance that you master English in both speech and writing.

To be successful in the role, you work structured and proactively, and at the same time you are security aware.

We believe that you are motivated by taking new challenges and have the ability breaking them into smaller parts to create innovative solutions.

You understand the importance of teamwork.

We are looking for applicants who are committed to further develop existing routines and technical solutions.

The solutions must work optimally in their context, even when these are constantly changing.