Position Description

We are a well-funded company, run by a senior and experienced founding team, offering a revolutionary solution for the e-commerce web sites.

Were looking for a Senior DBA for a new Infrastructure team.

In this role you will be responsible for administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting a 24x7 production environment database. You will also be part of a team creating new services and take full responsibility for architecture, design and implementation of those applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support to application developers.

• Assist with schema design, code review, SQL query tuning.

• Install, tune, implement and upgrade DBMS installations.

• Write and deploy SQL patches.

• Upgrade and improve application schema and data upgrades.

• Research and study new databases and perform POCs.

• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including

  monitoring of system health and performance tuning using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.

• Ability to become the expert on a specific domain of technology and provide technical consultation to other team members.

   

Position Requirements

• Good communication and interpersonal skills, and a person we'll be happy to meet in the office every day

• Academic degree or equivalent experience.

• 5 years of hands-on experience as an MS-Sql Server DBA

• Demonstrate extensive hands-on experience with SQL Server with a

  particular emphasis on performance and tuning

• Experience with backups, restores and recovery models

• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options

• Experience in implementing operational automation using scripts.

• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on companys success

• Multi-tasking and working well under deadlines in a changing environment, strong problem solving and analytical skills

   

Preferred Candidates would also meet the following criteria

• Familiarity with additional database paradigms and flavors (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)

• Experience with PowerShell;

• Experience with AWS;