wefox is the world's leading Insurtech that is reinventing insurance at scale, with a record-breaking Series C funding round of $650 million in 2021, making it the largest funding round of any Insurtech to date.
wefox is revolutionising insurance by empowering the customer and delivering personalised experiences, driven by data.
Our vision is to make insurance simple and 10x better.
By providing our customers 360-degree advice through our network of advisors, we optimise each individual's risk coverage through innovative prevention, assistance and insurance products.
We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Infrastructure and Operations team in IT.
As a Database Administrator at our company, you will be responsible for designing, testing, planning, implementing, protecting, operating, managing and maintaining our company's databases.
Additionally, as we want to enable a broad experience, you will also support infrastructure and operations topics for cloud-based (AWS EC2, AWS ECS, VPC networking) and a few on-premise deployed infrastructures.
Our goal is to build a high-performance agile team delivering state-of-the-art, highly automated and scalable infrastructures to our platform and to our other IT product teams (e.g.
Workplace Technology, Business and Enterprise Applications, Security, Service Desk).
For you, it's important to always understand the broader context of your work and you thrive to not only deliver point solutions but to identify opportunities to constantly evolve our infrastructure landscape.
For you, customer-orientation is essential for a high-performing IT organization and you enjoy continuous feedback loops to improve our infrastructure products and services.
In this role you will: Deploy, tune, implement and upgrade scalable distributed DBMS installations Provide guidance and support to Application Developers and collaborate with other team members and business stakeholders Assist with schema design, code review and SQL query tuning Write and deploy SQL patches in an automated fashion using Shell and Python Proactively and regularly make recommendations for system improvements Collate, prepare and present statistical information for internal and external use Actively contribute to other infrastructure initiatives outside DBA core responsibilities Closely collaborate with our DevOps teams and constantly evaluate, agree and deliver improvement potentials Actively train and share knowledge with your fellow infrastructure and operations, as well as DevOps colleagues to spread skills and experiences in the team in order to increase resilience and capacity What you bring: 5+ years of overall IT experience, with 3+ years of relevant experience in the following: Experience on code versioning tools like GIT Experience on monitoring tools like Zabbix, Grafana and Prometheus Experience working with Agile methodologies and technologies like Scrum, Kanban and JIRA Experience in general infrastructure topics in networking, on-premise and cloud infrastructures, in particular for virtualization and containerization High customer-orientation with a continuous improvement mindset Focus on continuous learning and development, you are constantly screening the market for new technologies and trends, and enjoy evaluating innovations Fluency in spoken and written English.
German, Spanish or Italian are a plus Implement and manage company data management practices and policies Good understanding of data and schema standards and concepts Good understanding of database design, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance Be a team player with critical thinking and problem-solving skills Good time-management skills and great interpersonal and communication skills What we offer: Now, we've gotten to the fun part, the part where you get to brag about your company, those perks your friends are so jealous of!
Here are some of them: Flexible working hours including hybrid working model Free access to a mental health and well-being platform for personalised care, such as 1:1 coaching and therapy sessions for life's ups and downs — whether at work, at home, or in your relationships A stack of the latest technologies and working gadgets Training and Coaching opportunities Free coffee, fruit, and snacks because we need fuel!
If you love a less-formal work environment, flexible paid time off, a great compensation package and benefits offering - and most of all, being the authentic you, get in touch, we want to meet you!
To all the misunderstood geniuses, rebels and mavericks looking to change the world for the better.
Come work with us!
Additional Benefits vary between countries and can be explained in more detail by a TA Partner.
Your contact person for this role is Natalia Pérez.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race.
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