Database Administrator (DBA)

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) in production and development environments
• Perform routine DB operations such as backup and recovery, schema changes, patching, upgrades, and security hardening
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and recovery for database-related issues
• Automation, configuration management, modernization
• Monitoring and analysis
• Work collaboratively with systems and infrastructure teams to understand storage, OS, and networking components that influence database performance and reliability
• Leverage basic Linux command-line and systems knowledge to troubleshoot and improve DB processes

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle (PostgreSQL strongly preferred)
• Solid grasp of daily DBA operational tasks, including backups, replication, security, user management, and logging
• At minimum, basic experience with performance tuning; medium level strongly preferred
• Basic knowledge of Linux systems, including filesystem layout, memory/disk utilization, and OS-level tools
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible) and other automation/deployment tools
• Experience with both On-Prem and Cloud configuration
• Experience with database specific Monitoring

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) for running database workloads
• Familiarity with Ceph RBD as a backend for database storage or similar distributed storage systems
• Understanding of modern big data formats or engines like Hadoop, Parquet, RocksDB
• Linux networking fundamentals (troubleshooting connections, ports, interfaces)
• Experience with cloud-based DB offerings (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure Database, GCP Cloud SQL)
• Familiarity with application development or scripting in BASH, Java or Python, particularly for automating databases install/configuration
• Experience with general Monitoring and Alerting