Middle DB Administrator (offline)

We invite those who fired up to:

— Rediscover the magic word of DB administration in the age of DevOps;
— Make PostgreSQL databases great again by managing, and tuning high-availability 24×7;
— Getting deeper into in-Memory DBs for full DBs administration activities;
— Implement policies and procedures pertaining to data management, security, maintenance and utilization;
— Managing, and test database backup & recovery strategies, verifying data integrity;
— Performing database installations, configurations, upgrades, and migrations. Automating routine as much as possible (Ansible roles);
— Proactively monitor and tune for performance. Alerting and incidents handling;
— Creating and maintain documentation and guides for troubleshooting database systems;
— Serve as DB master in DevOps and share DB wisdom to everyone.

Essential professional experience:
— 2 years of administering and designing PostgreSQL databases. Understanding of its server architecture, extensions, concepts, features, and high-availability technologies;
— Understanding of relational and dimensional database theory and concepts;
— Understands or have practical experience in MongoDB administration;
— Familiar with in-Memory DBs: Redis, Aerospike, Memcached, etc.
— Practical hands-on experience with database administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning and setup of HA solutions;
— Experience with database replication, hot stand-by, logical, trade-offs and table partitioning;
— Linux platform familiarity, system resource monitoring and tuning would be a good plus;
— Do not be afraid of a wide range of DB technologies and eager to learn and bring DBA to the new level.

Desirable skills:

— Familiar or master of devops toolkit managing DBs with Ansible & Terraform;
— Understands ELK stack and its pitfalls;
— Knows how deep Cassandra is or excited to discover it through your own DBA experience.

We care of your:
Health
— Medical insurance/Sport compensation;
— Sport club participation (football, running, basketball or swimming clubs);
— Tasty and healthy free breakfasts;
— 100% paid sick leaves;
— 20 working days of paid vacation.

Wealth
— Competitive salary and сonstant encouragement for your efforts and contribution;
— Bonuses according to company’s policy;
— Welfare (financial support in critical situations).
— Gifts for significant life events (marriage, childbirth).

Personal and professional growth
— Individual annual training budget with an opportunity to visit paid conferences, training sessions, workshops, etc.;
— Free corporate library;
— Opportunity to visit our non-stop internal meetups: open talks, IT Pump, etc. as a participant or a speaker and exchange knowledge;
— A world-class team of T-shaped skilled professionals that share knowledge and support each other

Leisure time
— Corporate parties and events (Pub Quiz, Carquest, bowling championships, etc.);
— PM Foundation activities (social responsibility events);
— Weekly events aimed at culture, arts, soft skills development.