Database Administrator

Job Description: Database administration

Database engineer should ensure the database is kept available, secure, and stable. Database engineer should constantly test its data to ensure it is not corrupted and perform regular updates to keep up with ever-changing computer technologies.  Essential functions and responsibilities: 

• Monitor the health of the DB servers through both automated and manual processes  
• Recommend and implement solutions for performance monitoring and tuning.  
• Analyze problems, anticipate future problem areas, and implement solutions.  
• Perform environment setup and configuration, proactive monitoring and maintenance.  
• Support the development of long- and short-term requirements for database administration and design.  
• Participate in your change control process for all planned application and technical activities.  
• Work with report writers to provide data needed for reports.  
• Take on full roadmap items, work with other functional teams, and be able to deliver high quality results on time.  
• Investigate and find the root cause for software problems reported by stakeholders  
• Direct organization of requirements and data into a usable database schema by directing development of ad hoc queries, scripts, updates to existing queries.  
• May perform database administration and maintenance, including database installation and configuration, backups, upgrades, patching.  
• Review SQL code written by application developers to ensure compliance to coding standards and best practices as well as maximum performance.  
• Evaluate performance of stored procedures and find time/resource consuming areas and give inputs to application developers to fix them  
• Create deployment and rollback scripts for all database objects manually or auto generated.  
• Analyze access patterns and propose the best combination of indexes, constraints, foreign keys, and queries.  
• Proactively identifies technical opportunities and enhancements while addressing major incidents in a timely manner  
• Manages and ensures the integrity, security, and retention of data  
• Administers and maintains end user accounts, permissions, and access rights  
• Participate in an on-call rotation providing 24-hour, 7-day support, and off-hours maintenance windows  

Knowledge, skills, and abilities: 

• Must have understanding of technologies consisting of but not limited to MariaDB/MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra etc...).  
• Must have working and technical knowledge and experience with current Linux operating systems  
• Must have Strong problem-solving and analytical skills  
• Proficient in relational databases and backup and recovery.  
• Comfortable with procedures such as shell scripting and scripting.  

Education and background: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline is required; experience may substitute for the education requirement  
• 5 years' experience with Relational Databases e.g. MariaDB/Mysql/NoSQL and above required  
• 5 years' experience with automation utilizing Shell scripting (Shell, Perl, python, etc.) required