Senior Database Administrator

1 day ago

Cape Town, South Africa HR Studio Full time

**We're looking for**

A Senior Database Administrator who will be responsible for the planning, building and maintenance of robust and reliable database clusters supporting our system infrastructure.

**Who are you?**
- You have strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
- You have the ability to work within aggressive and dynamic timelines
- You have strong communication skills and an ability to interact with all levels of end users and technical resources
- You have experience with Hadoop considered an asset
- You have experience managing infrastructure with code (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
- You have sufficient knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or PHP for task automation and monitoring components
- You are familiar with the Atlassian Stack management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)

**What's the role?**

**You will be responsible for**:

- Guide the Database Administration Team through the creation and execution of our database management
- Define and enforce availability and performance SLAs to maintain our high standards
- Maintain detailed, up-to-date documentation of internal data assets
- Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate creation and destruction of clusters
- Define and enforce monitoring and alarming policies to minimize system downtime or performance degradation
- Ensure systems are patched, secured and backed up to our standards
- Oversee the tuning of database engines for improved efficiency and cost
- Co-ordinate with cross-functional experts throughout the company to validate and develop new insights
- Collaborate with and support development and other teams in delivering on business objectives
- Expert analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
- Creative thinking and motivated self-starter with an ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and technologies
- Comfortable leading projects from start to finish with mínimal supervision
- Strong ability to work within aggressive and dynamic timeline
- Excellent team player and positive contributor to the culture of the business
- Participate in On-call rotation for publishing platform

**Boxes to tick**
- Matric
- University degree or diploma in related field
- 5+ years of relevant Database Administration experience
- Expert in large scale MySQL database cluster administration
- Advanced knowledge of SQL optimization
- Experience implementing and maintaining best practices for database backups
- Basic Linux system administration experience
- Comfortable administering Mongo or a similar document-based database system
- Intermediate understanding of PostgreSQL database systems
- Virtualization experience, specifically AWS cloud computing and clustering

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