We are looking for a Database Administrator in our international team for a full-time remote job in Minsk.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational integrity of company databases.
• Monitor and optimize DB performance. Monitor and analyze system bottlenecks and stability and propose solutions to eliminate them.
• Control DB access permissions and privileges. Establish the needs of database users.
• Ensure backup and recovery procedures are functioning properly.
• Capacity and hardware planning.
• On-Call duties with ability to perform urgent DB recovery, profiling, or other issues, related to failover, replication, performance, etc.
• Create, maintain & review SQL migrations (updates/patches).
• Maintain code and documentation.
• Develop and execute migration plans for regular upgrades of the DB software to the latest version.
• Evaluate alternative solutions and/or workarounds.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• PostgreSQL production support experience (knowledge of ClickHouse, MongoDB, MySQL and Kafka will be considered as advantage)
• Strong SQL knowledge.
• Linux experience. Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Effective DB team member, but with ability to solve DB issues autonomously.
• Knowledge of database design principles, query optimization, procedural SQL, including stored procedures, triggers and views. Ability to efficiently write database or server code without compromising data quality or security.
• Able to handle multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.
• Good English verbal and written skills.
• Willingness to learn.

Nice-to-have Skills

• AWS and Google Cloud knowledge.
• Experience in high load environments.
• Automation deployments using Ansible and Terraform.
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes (Jenkins, Git, Liquibase, etc.).
• Kubernetes / Docker.