NoSQL Database Administrator (offline)

Strategic objectives and challenges:
• Resolving a problem of writing and storing huge volumes of data.
• Optimization of processing huge volumes of data.
• Transfer of 10+ Tb of data from MySQL database to NoSQL database.

Key areas of responsibility:
• Manage and maintain production databases and Elasticsearch nodes and indexes associated with search capabilities.
• Automate and suggest new ways of managing large NoSQL database cluster and improve existing Elasticsearch performance.
• Push the limits of MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and other NoSQL database technologies
• Apply cutting edge cloud computing technologies in their work.
• Create sustainable and maintainable environments for existing NoSQL and Elasticsearch solutions.
• Install, configure, update and troubleshoot large database and search environments and applications.
• Collaborate with engineers, DBAs, and DevOps teams on technical issues.
• Take care of system monitoring of NoSQL database solutions and search engines.
• Work on a schema design and data modeling.
• Conduct continuous assessment of NoSQL database performance.
• Provide proper backups & recovering.

Technical requirements:
• Production experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra, and others.
• Production experience with search engines, such as Elasticsearch, Solr, or Apache Lucene.
• Previous work experience with relational databases, such as Oracle, Postgres, or MySQL.
• Experience in managing highly available, scalable production systems in a fast-paced production environment.
• Experience in building and developing in both a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), as well as on the direct host level (non-cloud level).
• Understanding of data architecture, replication, and administration.
• Extensive knowledge of Linux/Unix.
• Experience with at least one cross-platform configuration management and/or orchestration tools, such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Packer, and Terraform.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration: Kubernetes.
• Comfortable with collaborative tools, such as Slack, wikis, and basic ticket tracking systems (YouTrack, Jira).

Non-technical requirements:
• Fast learner and creative thinker with strong problem solving skills.
• Effective team member with high level of motivation and ability to work with little supervision.
• Dynamic self-starter with high attention to detail, highly responsible and reliable.
• The ideal candidate will be able to work from the office.

Desirable skills:
• Knowledge of database-related CNCF projects.
• Previous work experience with Python, Golang, Shell, or other programming language.
• Confident knowledge of big data pipelines, such as Hive, Spark, Kafka.
• Good understanding of load balancers, DNS, networking, and/or client-side drivers.

By choosing us you get:
• Opportunity to work with a multi-million audience.
• Career growth and professional development with various internal training and seminars, access to an extensive book library, English language classes, chance to participate in key IT industry events worldwide (attending the conferences).
• Work in a cool team. We pay special attention to the recruitment and development of the talent. All the members of our team are young, active and highly motivated for creative problem solving.
• Employee wellness programme, which includes running sessions, football, basketball, and other sports. The cost of sports activities is fully covered by the company. In-house doctor support is also available on demand.
• Health insurance available for all employees.

About socialtechnologies.io

SocialTech — глобальная IT-компания в индустрии Social Discovery. Мы развиваем собственные продукты, которыми пользуются миллионы людей по всему миру. SocialTech уже сейчас один из лидеров в своей нише и при этом мы продолжаем расти на сотни процентов в год по всем ключевым показателям.

Сегодня, мы — это:
— продуктовая компания полного цикла;
— сильная команда из 65 человек;
— свыше 1 млн. пользователей наших сервисов каждый месяц;
— более 2000 RPS на front-end, более 50 серверов, основная продуктовая БД 1.5+ Tb;
— порядка 70 рекламных сетей в списке партнеров;

Наша главная ценность — люди и команда. Мы всегда ищем сильных специалистов, которые будут работать на результат, а также напрямую влиять на развитие продукта и бизнеса. Со своей стороны мы предлагаем неограниченные возможности по развитию и и свободу в выборе инструментов и способов достижения целей. У нас всегда много интересных задач, амбициозных целей и сложных вызовов.

Company website:
https://www.socialtechnologies.io/