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

Qualifications

• 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