.Optimally managing data is an essential part of the service we provide to our customers. To that end, our DBA team designs and maintains database structures used by our entire engineering area, defining policies and procedures to ensure data is kept secure and reliable. As Database Administrator, you'll join a collaborative, flexible environment to take on the challenges of managing a sophisticated structure of ever-expanding data.Your challenges and objectives:Identify opportunities to improve our databases for: security, performance, scalability, reliability.Gain a strong understanding of solid database design.Develop a capacity to detect and diagnose situations with databases in critical productive environments, look for the proper solution and understand when action is warranted.Stay up-to-date on possible technologies and tools we could use to improve our data architecture, structures and processes.Become familiarized with our policies and the needs of our various development teams to propose effective and compliant data solutions.Design and foresee solutions and optimizations for an ever-growing enterprise application.Your day-to-day activities:Design, write, and improve scripts to automate database administration and operate database tasks.Support other teams by advising them on writing queries and creating, optimizing, and implementing structures for application development or any other DB-related decision.Perform database tuning and performance monitoring.Work with MySQL features to find the best configuration for our project.Set and monitor policies, procedures, and standards of database management, access, and security.Iterate on procedures to make them more robust, automatic, and reliable.About you:Strong analytical skills and detail-oriented.Mature knowledge of databases concepts, relational databases theory, and their mechanisms and internals.MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, PostgreSql or Oracle experience is desirable.Knowledge of database tools, utilities, and physical database design.Knowledge of underlying operating systems.Scripting skills (preferably Bash and/or Python).Familiar with industry best practices in system administration and willingness to support a 24/7 production environment (one week on call every 2 months).About us:Avature is a market leading enterprise SaaS Solution provider for global talent acquisition and talent management. We have a strong commitment to high quality engineering and customer service and are recognized innovators in the very large company market. We currently work with over 650 companies worldwide, including 110 of the Fortune 500, all of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest banks and manufacturers in the world, and five governments.We design, build, implement, and support our product ourselves. With 26 releases a year and a strong commitment to innovation and quality engineering, our private cloud platform has become the product choice for the very large global organization