Senior AWS Database Engineer
Transfermate, Bulgaria
Job Description
TransferMate, Ireland’s most recent tech unicorn, is part of CluneTech, a suite of companies providing cutting-edge solutions that simplify global business. We have been recognized as aGreat Place to Workfor 7 consecutive years, a Best Workplace for Womenfor the past 3 years and most recently, we were delighted to be recognized as a Best Workplace in Techfor the accreditation’s first year.
Our global footprint encompasses 35 offices worldwide and we do business across 100 countries on a daily basis. In Bulgaria alone, we have 950 + employees across our offices in Varna, Veliko Tarnovo and Shumen and we’re continuing to grow!
The Cloud Database Engineer is a dedicated leader in supporting business-critical applications and services. The role involves a combination of database administration, software engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and database design, management, and optimization. The Cloud Database Engineer is critical for ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of cloud-based applications and services. You are responsible not only for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based databases, but also for network segmentation, compliance, better high availability and disaster recovery, inventory amp; license management, risk assessment, and governance.
By joining a leading high-performance Fintech product organization, AWS DBE approach on deliverables will require a focus more on applications and less on platforms. Security amp; standards compliance driven-mindset will be sought in every aspect of the role delivery.
Teamwork and an ability to contribute as part of a group is of essential importance and critical to role progression. DBE leadership skills will be instrumental in promoting team collaboration amp; preventing siloed work, often seen by enforcing separation of duties through roles or departmental function, effectively acting as a "glue" across various technology teams.
Reporting into Head of Cloud Operations, senior DBE role is an integral part of Transfermate AWS Platforms, Database amp; Linux Applications team, operating in close collaboration with Software Development Leads, Heads of Technology and C-level executives representing the company.
What you will be doing:
- Establish, oversee and enforce compliance to Database management standards, associated with configuration management, provisioning/decommissioning, access control, maintenance, backup function, monitoring, high availability, elasticity and BCP/Disaster recovery
- Adopt new technology and continuously Improve systems, their interoperation, dependencies and established processes around the same
- Acquire new skill set continuously to gain new insight and improve all aspects of service delivery
- Oversee and manage effectively all aspects of Relational and Non-relational Databases supporting Application function across all product environments
- Operate seamlessly without hesitation in mission-critical Production environments
- Create and Maintain Documentation, including diagrams availing of adopted Atlassian products
- Produce monthly Management Reports
- Apply Automation in avery aspect of the role delivery to lower all risk associated with manual action
- Conduct Root cause Incident Analysis, propose and implement resolution
- Responsibility for data Models and data design across the business, while operating closely with Heads of Development and bringing in improvements recurringly
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes, monitoring of system health and alerting
- Conduct capacityand availability planning, to ensure high performance and dynamic scalability
- Plan and Conduct scheduled maintenances, apply release hotfixes inside and outside office hours on a need to basis
- Conduct Query plan analysis and improve transactional throughput performance, while working in close collaboration with Heads of Development
- Support the organization strategic and tactical planning amp; Present on planning, articulating approach clearly
Requirements
The skills that you have:
- Broad insight and experience in High-performance transactional throughput Data Model Application Architectures
- Mindset focused on Security and standards compliance
- Hands-on Experience in building and supporting Enterprise grade, Elastic Production environments
- Expertise in deploying and managing HA PostgreSQL based workloads on-premise /or alternative ex. Maria DB/
- Hybrid Cloud and Database workload migration experience
- Cross Database engine migration experience is highly preferable /Microsoft TSQL - PostgreSQL/
- Cloud native Database service experiencein mission critical production environment