Position: Database Administrator (DBA)
Company: BrightLocal
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Required skills**
• Extensive experience (3+ years) of managing, optimizing and monitoring large MySQL databases
• Experience implementing robust backup strategies
• Experience with NoSQL databases, search technologies, such as ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, etc
• Experience of providing database design and architecture advice to developers
• Excellent Linux server administration skills
• Excellent English language skills

**As a plus**
• Message/job queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• ClickHouse
• System automation tools, such as Ansible
• Docker/Containerization

**Responsibilities**
• Provision MySQL instances and set up/manage replication
• Ensure performance, security and availability of databases
• Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc
• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
• Provide DB architectural advice to developers
• Help to plan and horizontally scale our data (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Support NoSQL DB installations (planning, optimization, backup, restore, etc)

**BENEFITS & ADDITIONAL INFO**
**Salary**
Competitive pay with yearly salary review.

**Training**
We’re keen to invest in our team’s continued success with regular training and conference opportunities, we also like to have fun with regular team building days which include activities like paragliding, quad biking and sailing to name but a few!

**Holidays**
We offer paid holidays dependent on location and contract (plus public holidays) and you get a day off for your birthday too.

**Charity Days**
You have the option to spend six working days of each year volunteering at a charity of your choice.

**Company Bonus**
Every team member enters into our company bonus scheme which is worth up to 20% of your annual salary.

**Private Healthcare**
Every team member also gets access to private healthcare. 

**COVID Update** 
Throughout COVID the team have been working remotely to avoid spreading the virus. 
BrightLocal has remained profitable throughout the pandemic with no redundancies and no team members placed on furlough. We’re incredibly fortunate and remain on track to hit our revenue and growth goals in 2021.

**Also**
• Free online English lessons twice a week
• A modern, quiet and comfortable workplace 
• Fast, powerful PC or Laptop and high quality 24″ screen(s)
• A plentiful supply of coffee, cookies and fruits in the office