Senior Database Administrator

About the role

This role covers the full lifecycle of production databases, from installation and configuration to performance tuning, backups and security. It works closely with Development, Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud and Security teams to keep database operations reliable.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, maintain and upgrade MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQLite and other database systems.
• Monitor performance, availability and health, and troubleshoot issues proactively.
• Tune performance, optimize queries, index data and plan capacity.
• Manage backup, recovery, disaster recovery and high availability, including replication and failover.
• Implement security, user access control, encryption and patching.
• Automate administration tasks with PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Support production environments, perform root cause analysis and provide Level 3 support.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.
• 4-5+ years of database administration experience in production environments.
• Experience with database migrations, upgrades, backup/recovery and high-availability architectures.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Required skills

• MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and SQLite.
• SQL optimization, indexing, execution plans, partitioning and performance tuning.
• Replication, high availability, backup and disaster recovery.
• AWS RDS and Linux/Windows servers.
• PowerShell, Bash, Shell or Python scripting.
• Monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, SolarWinds or Redgate.