Position: Senior Database Admin
Company: SliceIQ Inc.
Category: SQL
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

SliceIQ is looking for a talented Senior Database Admin for one of our customers in the United States. They will be responsible for the performance, availability, monitoring, and security of the data layer. You will work closely with engineering, QA, and product teams to help define how they build, test and ship our products. You must be a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment, and must be able to prioritize, multi-task and manage your workload. You will collaborate with development teams to improve existing processes with automation and industry best practices for continuous integration and delivery. 
Responsibilities: 
● Responsible for the performance, availability, monitoring, and security of the data layer 
● Design and review schema and queries 
● Automate or codify repetitive tasks in order to aid workflows of team members 
● Respond promptly to production alerts and follow up with post-mortem assessments 
● Maintain resiliency of the production environment and disaster recovery options 
● Proactively determine requirements for new projects 
● Continuously monitor and optimize costs 
● Work as part of the DevOps team to support sandbox, test and production environments 
Technologies Used: MongoDB, MariaDB, Redshift, VividCortex, XPlenty,
Requirements:
● 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator 
● Experience with AWS EC2 and AWS data offerings such as Aurora, Redshift 
● Experience working with Linux, Redis, ETL, Terraform, Docker, Python 
● MariaDB or Mysql relational database experience, galera cluster preferred 
● MongoDB NoSQL experience 
● Strong SQL experience 
● VividCortex, Solarwinds or other database specific monitoring 
● Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work well across multiple departments