Senior Postgresql Dba - Infrastructure Cloud (Marzán)
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We are looking for a Senior DBA - Reliability Engineer to join the Platform team.This role combines deep database administration expertise with SRE principles to ensure data infrastructure operates at scale with high availability and performance.We welcome experienced DBAs who are eager to grow into SRE practices - full training and mentoring provided.What You'll DoOwn the design and maintenance of highly available database systems (99.9%+ uptime), including installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimizationConduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning for production databasesImplement backup and disaster recovery strategies with automated failoverEstablish and monitor SLOs and SLIs for database systemsPartner with development teams on query optimization and performance reviews, acting as a reliability advocate embedded in engineering workflowsParticipate in on-call rotation and incident response; lead post-incident reviews and drive preventive measuresAutomate operational tasks through IaC and scripting; build self-service database provisioning toolsChampion database reliability and DevOps practices across engineering teams, mentoring developers on reliability principlesWhat We're Looking For5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environmentsAdvanced SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, performance optimization, and execution plan analysisPostgreSQL (required); MySQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis) are a plusAWS cloud databases: RDS and Aurora (required)Terraform for IaC (required)Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, dashboards, alerting), OpenTelemetryPython 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#J-*****-Ljbffr
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We are looking for a Senior DBA - Reliability Engineer to join the Platform team.This role combines deep database administration expertise with SRE principles to ensure data infrastructure operates at scale with high availability and performance.We welcome experienced DBAs who are eager to grow into SRE practices - full training and mentoring provided.What You'll DoOwn the design and maintenance of highly available database systems (99.9%+ uptime), including installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimizationConduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning for production databasesImplement backup and disaster recovery strategies with automated failoverEstablish and monitor SLOs and SLIs for database systemsPartner with development teams on query optimization and performance reviews, acting as a reliability advocate embedded in engineering workflowsParticipate in on-call rotation and incident response; lead post-incident reviews and drive preventive measuresAutomate operational tasks through IaC and scripting; build self-service database provisioning toolsChampion database reliability and DevOps practices across engineering teams, mentoring developers on reliability principlesWhat We're Looking For5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environmentsAdvanced SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, performance optimization, and execution plan analysisPostgreSQL (required); MySQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis) are a plusAWS cloud databases: RDS and Aurora (required)Terraform for IaC (required)Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, dashboards, alerting), OpenTelemetryPython 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 #J-*****-Ljbffr