Position: Senior DBA
Company: Altamira.ai
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

What you will be doing

We are looking for an experience Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL Database Administrator to join our team. You will have a proven track of record as a DBA and will be ensuring that our systems are properly maintained, configured and deployed to our agreed standards and with modern automation frameworks and best practices. You should have great communication skills and an appetite for learning new skills.

Among other things, you will:

· Be responsible for patching, backups, support and performance tuning of our hosted and SaaS DBs (AWS RDS)
· Liaise with our DevOps engineers for developing automated maintenance processes and tasks
· Liaise with our developers to help them build optimised queries and data layers
· CI/CD best practices for deploying and releasing to databases
· Define and coordinate schema migration strategy
· Make sure to maintain a strong High Availability pattern along with a rehearsed Disaster Recovery protocol

What you should have:

· Proven commercial experience as an experienced MS SQL and MySQL DBA
· Good understanding of Databases, security best practices as well as SQL Audit procedures
· Experienced in reviewing SQL designs
· Strong understanding of SQL, stored procedures, triggers and indexes
· Experience with data archiving strategies
· Experience with automated schema upgrades frameworks and processes

Other skills and experience which would be beneficial

· Knowledge of other SQL engines like PostgreSQL
· Knowledge of NoSQL and big data engines
· Worked in an agile development environment
· Experience working with Magento 2 DB schema