Job reference #6170_8630887

Team: Platform Reliability

Role: Senior Database Administrator 

The Platform Reliability team at Lifion is central to the reputation and trustworthiness of our product. We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) with broad experience in database technologies.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own high-availability production database systems, and meet stringent Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective SLAs
• Perform database administration tasks, including automation, performance monitoring and tuning, and query optimization
• Work with infrastructure engineers, developers, and architects to ensure performance and scalability of applications
• Work with security and operations to manage access control to databases
• Monitor databases for problems and diagnose their origin
• Identify and resolve production application issues
• Plan and provide operational oversight in database migrations with minimal impact to customers

QUALIFICATIONS

• You have experience tuning and optimizing performance of SQL and NoSQL databases (major emphasis on MySQL)
• You understand security best practices for data protection
• You have a strong sense of ownership, and an ability to drive tasks to completion
• You have strong communication skills

• You have experience with cloud infrastructure; Amazon RDS/Aurora is a plus
• You have experience with programming languages (bash, Python)
• You have experience leading a team
• You don’t fear changing production