Vagas: database administrator

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Join us on the mission of reinventing businesses through groundbreaking software solutions. At 2am.tech, we celebrate autonomy and provide a nurturing space for you to unleash your potential. However, to fully embrace 2am.tech culture, it is necessary to cherish our core values. Are you a trustworthy and honest person? Are you willing to constantly expand your knowledge? Are you dedicated, innovative, and result-oriented? If the answer is yes, we would like to meet you!

We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our team.

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You have more than 5+ years of professional experience in the Database Engineering field. You are motivated, talented, and committed to the job at hand and your team. You take pride and ownership in your deliverables. You thrive on and enjoy the challenges of each day, and you seek to surround yourself with like-minded people. You are a clear communicator who shares your knowledge and ideas, and you expect the same from those around you.

If you're proactive, can mentor junior developers, and are available until 12 PM CST / 1 PM EST, we’d love to hear from you!

• Minimum of 5 years experience working as a DBA, with experience in operational and production environments, ideally at least 2 different companies.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with AWS and Aurora MySQL.
• Experience in performance tuning and optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Hands-on experience in managing high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) options for databases, such as replication, failover clusters, and backups.
• Hands-on experience in database security, including user access management, encryption, and auditing practices.
• Ability to collaborate directly with developers and system administrators to ensure database best practices in application development and production operations.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus) for ensuring database health, and identifying and addressing bottlenecks.
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automating database tasks and writing utilities to support DBA functions.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and Scrum processes, including incident tracking, documentation, and participation in team ceremonies.
• Ability to conduct database reviews, mentor junior DBAs, and contribute to improving database management processes.
• Must be available and online during core business hours until 12 PM CST / 1 PM EST to provide support and respond to incidents.
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) to automate routine database tasks and deployments is a plus.
• AWS certifications are a plus.
• Knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, ElasticSearch, and Redis is a plus.
• Fluent in English.

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