Database Administrator
vakansiya — 2024

Job title: IT/Platform Development/Database Administrator

Are you looking for your next career challenge? Simbrella is seeking a Database administrator to join our Platform Development team. We want more than just skills. The person we want will have the necessary experience and qualifications but the person that we need should have qualities that can’t be taught: creativity, motivation, and a drive to continuously improve.

The Role/Responsibilities:

• Installing, Administering and Maintaining database server instances (Standalone, Clustered)
• Identifying, troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, connectivity, security, indexing issues.
• Performance troubleshooting and query optimization
• Participating in system design
• Installing, configuring, patching and upgrading database software
• Regular security audits
• Creating database login IDs, database IDs and assigning permissions
• Capacity Planning
• Performing database backups on a routine basis, validating backups and periodically test media integrity
• Periodically restoring databases to test restoration procedures
• Ensuring all incidents are logged in the help-desk system and prioritized appropriately
• Maintaining documentation and compliance
• Cooperating with other departments where necessary ensuring optimum provision and performance of the IT infrastructure
• Maintaining daily data warehousing processes
• On-call troubleshooting for database server operation

You’ll need to have knowledge of:

• Core computer science foundation
• Knowledge and hands-on experience in operating systems, servers, networks, security and maintenance
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery•
• Notion of core Database concepts such as stored procedures, indexes, blocking and deadlocks, replication, clustering

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years in an operational support role with database servers (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience of working in a fast-moving business where system downtime has a major impact on profitability and performance
• Methodical approach with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communications skills with the ability to articulate technical solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences

The following are highly desirable:

• Ability to work effectively both individually and on a team
• Strong design and problem-solving skills, documentation, requirements gathering and analysis
• Experience in infrastructure architecture designing
• Having sense of ownership and desire to fix problems you didn’t cause
• Experience of working in aggressive scheduled timelines
• Adaptable communication skills, ability to talk to developers, support, business and PMs
• Ability to travel

Are you Interested? Please indicate the name of the position you are applying for in the subject line of the application email and send to e-mail address: jobs@simbrella.com