Administrator
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
Linux Database Administrator Duties:
- Be accountable for the implementation, performance, scalability and monitoring of our database platforms and infrastructure.
- Own the delivery of robust, scalable, performant database services in an agile engineering environment.
- Build effective, productive relationships with technologi’s development and infrastructure teams to ensure services can be transitioned into production in a planned, orderly and consistent manner to defined standards and key performance indicators.
- Work with the Head of Infrastructure to ensure accurate forecasting and reporting of project progress.
- Ensure problems/issues are solved in a timely and satisfactory manner.
- Actively work to unblock issues faced by the team during delivery.
- Understand and proactively plan software and infrastructure over a period of 3-5 years to meet both technical and business needs.
- Manage project activity and balance this with support and administration tasks.
- Monitor database efficiency and manage parameters to ensure optimum performance of our services.
- Control access permissions and privileges to the databases.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Linux Database Administrator Requirements:
- Superb interpersonal communication skills and attention to detail.
- Vision, drive and passion - someone who’s prepared to get the job done, no matter what it takes and reap the rewards.
- Any knowledge of GCP, AWS, Apache, Nginx, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Gitlab, Python, Java, PHP, Galera, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis would be considered a huge plus for any potential candidate.
- Highly analytical mindset, able to debug complex database performance issues.
- Excellent Linux administration skills (Ubuntu and CentOS/RHEL are preferable).
- Good understanding of the TCP/IP stack.
- Good familiarity with version control systems like Subversion/Git.
- Good knowledge of scripting in the Linux platform.
- Substantial experience working in database roles.
- Experience in migration between database versions and vendors.
- Upgrade lifecycle management.
- Capacity management planning.
- Database roadmap planning.
- A good understanding of MariaDB, MySQL, Redis, Galera and MongoDB.
- Detailed knowledge of Database clustering & replication.
- Database indexing, index management and performance tuning.
- Extensive skills in backup, restoration, performance tuning, database monitoring and security.
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