Senior Database Administrator

Job Description

Responsibilities: Working with other members of the Database Services and external development teams to deliver projects specified in our company roadmap Owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests across the following database platforms (PgSQL, SQL Server, Opensearch, Redshift) Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs. Reviewing service-related reports (e.g. database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure operational issues are identified and resolved promptly. Responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems. Identifying opportunities for process improvement including enhancing automation for database platform provisioning Enhancing database monitoring & alerting platforms to ensure proactive alerting is always achieved. Promotion of database engineering best practices within our cross-functional development teams. Coaching / mentoring junior engineers. Where youll be working: This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager. You’ll need to have: experience with management & operations of Database technologies & services with the majority of your recent experience in the AWS platform. Strong analytical & problem solving skills In-depth experience in one or more of the following Technologies operating in a high-volume, high-throughput environment. PgSQL Opensearch/ElasticSearch Redshift SQL Server Experience with the above technologies to include but not limited to the following:- General Database Administration Tasks Database Troubleshooting & Performance Reviews Database & Index Design & Maintenance Design & Maintenance of Partitioning Database Upgrades High Availability & Disaster Recovery Options Performance Tuning & optimisation Security Hardening & Access Provisioning Monitoring & Alerting Experience in managing database platforms which operate regulatory controls such as GDPR/CCPA/CPRA, HIPPA, SOCII etc. Experiencing in designing, development & maintaining CI/CD pipelines for AWS Infrastructure & Database Code deployments (using services such as GIT, Bamboo, Powershell, RedGate Flyway, Cloud Formation Templates, etc.) Ability to troubleshoot software, hardware & service related issues. Excellent organizational skills & attention to detail Excellent written and oral communication skills Ability to coach, mentor, and influence team members through the necessary database disciplines