PostgreSQL DBA - Infrastructure Cloud (Cequeliños)

Innoit Consulting
Lalín, Spain
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Lalín, Spain

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Cloud Database
Cloud Engineering
Databases
Data Infrastructure
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Database Queries
DevOps
Monitoring of Systems
Python
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MySQL
NoSQL
Performance Tuning
Query Optimization
Redis
Site Reliability Engineering Practices
SQL Stored Procedures
SQL Databases
Data Streaming
Datadog
Sql Optimization
GitHub Copilot
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes
Kafka
Terraform
Docker

Job description

The role focuses on ensuring data infrastructure operates at scale with optimal performance. Candidates should have over 5 years of database administration experience and strong skills in PostgreSQL and cloud databases., * Own the design and maintenance of highly available database systems.

  • Conduct performance tuning and capacity planning for production databases.
  • Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies.

Conocimientos

Database administration SQL PostgreSQL AWS RDS and Aurora Terraform Python or Bash scripting

Herramientas

Datadog Kubernetes Docker Descripción del empleo, We welcome experienced DBAs who are eager to grow into SRE practices - full training and mentoring provided. What You'll Do

  • Own the design and maintenance of highly available database systems (99.9%+ uptime), including installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimization
  • Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning for production databases
  • Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies with automated failover
  • Establish and monitor SLOs and SLIs for database systems
  • Partner with development teams on query optimization and performance reviews, acting as a reliability advocate embedded in engineering workflows
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; lead post-incident reviews and drive preventive measures
  • Automate operational tasks through IaC and scripting; build self-service database provisioning tools
  • Champion database reliability and DevOps practices across engineering teams, mentoring developers on reliability principles

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments.
  • Advanced SQL skills including complex queries and performance optimization.
  • PostgreSQL experience is required, MySQL and NoSQL are a plus., * 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments
  • Advanced SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, performance optimization, and execution plan analysis
  • PostgreSQL (required); MySQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis) are a plus
  • AWS cloud databases: RDS and Aurora (required)
  • Terraform for IaC (required)
  • Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, dashboards, alerting), OpenTelemetry
  • Python or Bash scripting for database automation; comfortable using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
  • Kubernetes and Docker knowledge (preferred)
  • Kafka or event streaming experience (preferred)
  • Experience with high-availability clusters, replication, and

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