We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our expanding DBA team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the performance, availability, and security of clusters of NoSQL instances in a mixture of containerized and non-containerized environment.

You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, provisioning of database instances and day-to-day maintenance of Production and Non production Databases.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and support high available and scalable distributed NoSQL database for high volume transactions

• Ensure performance, security, and availability of 24x7 mission critical databases in a mixture of containerized and non-containerized environment.

• Cross Data Centre Replication

• Configuration Management using Puppet, Ansible, Terraform

• Automation using Shell, Python, configuration management

• Database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, deployments etc.

• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary

• Ensure Change management process is followed

• Collaborate with other team members and business stakeholders

• Maintain and develop data models, structures, and procedures to ensure the integrity of all database components

• Prepare crystal clear documentations and specifications including database design and coding standards

• Provide 24x7 support during on-call support rotation schedule

Must Have

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, with 5+ year of relevant experience in the following:

• Nosql databases/datastores e.g Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB etc.

• Strong Linux Administration Skills

• Scripting languages like Shell, Python or Ruby

• Config management tools like Puppet, Terraform and Ansible etc.

• Experience with optimization and performance tuning

• Extremely organized with a strong attention to detail

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills Desirable

• Knowledge of other Database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer, Oracle)

• Docker Containers and Kubernetes

• Cloud migration and management

• Code versioning tools like GIT and SVN

• Knowledge of *nix tuning would be helpful

For further information please send your email to clussier@teksystems.com with the latest version of your CV.

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