Position: Database Administrator
Company: TechScout.tech
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Greetings! My name is Maria, I am looking for a talented Database Administrator to join the team of my customer - a product company from Germany. Strong experience with ElasticSearch is a must-have. 

Project: an online platform for teachers to share teaching materials. By now more than 1 000 000 teachers use it to prepare lessons. They share their self-created teaching materials - millions of times. An international team of almost 100 people with development part based in Ukraine (the IT team counts around 25 members).

Conditions:

-Remote
- Recruitment process: 2 interviews (initial + technical)
- Direct contract
- Full-time
- Long-term


Requirements:

- You have at least 3 years hands-on experience with MySQL (or Percona) 5.7+ and ElasticSearch
- You have knowledge in configuring small to medium-size clusters, safely backup and restoring them
- You know how to optimize, test and profile schema and queries 
- You know how OLAP databases and NoSQL solutions (preferable MongoDB/Redis) work
- You have experience in using Docker and docker-compose as well as infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. terraform/ansible/saltstack)
- You are able to quickly investigate database issues 
- You are experienced in benchmarking different database configuration setups 
- English (verbal & written) - you should be able to discuss work-related topics


Responsibilities:

- You will detect errors in schema, queries, configuration and overall usage of our databases
- You will work with back-end, DevOps, QA and security teams to plan for and continuously improve all the aspects of our work with databases
- You will verify database changes performed by other teams
- You will monitor query performance and provide guidance to other teams on how to improve it


You’re welcome to ask me additional questions. Please, send your CV and salary expectations if you are interested! Thank you in advance!