Position: Database Administrator with DevOps skills
Company: OpenVPN
Category: SQL
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

— 5+ years of experience in a DevOps/DBA/DBE role
— Extensive experience in SQL (Postgresql, Postgresql, & more Postgresql, and maybe some MySQL)
— Working knowledge of JSON and Postgresql JSONB extensions
— Strong operational experience in Linux/Unix environment and scripting languages like Shell, Perl, Python is required
— Strong troubleshooting skills
— At least upper-intermediate level of English, both spoken and written
— When you talk in your sleep it should be Postgresql compatible SELECT statements.

**As a plus:**
— Experience in horizontal database scaling, Citus Data/TimescaleDB
— Familiarity with PostGIS.
— Experience in NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
— Experience in Airflow, Kettle, and the Pentaho PDI/PDR.

Our philosophy is that we are a small, closely-knit team and we care deeply about you:
— Competitive salary;
— Great new office space;
— Flexible working schedule, remote work possible;
— Working directly with colleagues from Silicon Valley and around the world;
— Team trips, certification and events compensation, medical insurance, sports, etc.;
— Last but not least, we are really fun to work with!

**Responsibilities:**
— Maintain roughly 100 custom data pipelines written in Perl, PHP, Python & Java.
— Create new data pipelines and transformations.
— Assist with data migrations and database component software updates
— Assist with cloud and bare-metal infrastructure buildout
— Build out new services such as data presentation systems (metabase, pentaho data reporter, tableau, etc)
— Work with the BI team to turn raw data into insights as efficiently as possible
— Help troubleshoot any BI tool issues such as failing jobs and reporting layer slowness
— Work with other teams to create ETLs.
— Set up integration environments and provision databases for new projects
— Develop the Dev-Ops process using CI/CD tools
— Repair failing components as needed — be available when needed
— Be given only a mallet and some small wrenches with which to work

**This position involves:**

— Caring for our large horizontally scaled database clusters, processes, and custom data pipelines.
— Creating queries and ETLs and improving poorly written ones.
— Optimizing the clusters to run as efficiently as possible, maintaining data consistency.
— Helping data producers and consumers to move their data efficiently and produce the results they want.
— Contributing to the planning of future growth.
— Revision control and migrating data forward through new versions of software and architectures.
— Implementation of our technologies on cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and bare metal
— Dreaming about the numbers and ways to improve the systems when asleep.
— Implementing solutions that are good enough now, while planning for better solutions in the future.
— Building tools that make others within the company more productive.