.The RoleThis position is responsible for acting as a primary technical resource for the support and administration of MySQL or Postgres in both large-scale production and development environments across multiple products.
This position continually evaluates the entire MySQL or Postgres topology to identify and create plans to address performance issues, architectural shortcomings, and other opportunities for improvement.
The fundamental goal is to ensure the production environment is always operational and performing optimally.
This position requires strong organizational and collaboration skills and partnering with numerous distributed teams is a must for success.This position is a key resource contributing to the technical growth and development of the SQL DBA team through mentoring and training of other team members.What You'll DoEnsure production MySQL or Postgres maintain the company's requirements for HADR, Security, and RPORTOProvide on-call support (as part of a rotation) for production alerts or issues both during and outside normal working hoursProvide support during maintenance windows or deployment/release activitiesJoin war-room calls to triage and troubleshoot outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekendsBuild and improve automation around configuring and administering MySQL or PostgresOptimize performance of MySQL or Postgres and determine the most effective ways to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changesContinuous evaluation and implementation of proactive measures to improve performance and stability of MySQL or PostgresCreate and maintain procedural and technical documentationCollaborate with other teams in enterprise level projects and provide support guidance as neededLead assigned quarterly projects from initial concept and drive to successful completionIdentify technical developmental opportunities and provide guidance to Mid and Junior Level DBA team membersWhat You'll BringBachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field or related experience.
This role is based remotely in Spain and must require the right to work.
Visa sponsorship is not provided