Principal Database Administrator (DBA)

Tasks

• Analyze execution plans
• Automate backup and restore validation
• Build connection pooling strategies
• Define SLIs and SLOs
• Define high availability and disaster recovery strategy
• Define scalability roadmap
• Design monitoring architecture
• Drive database reliability
• Ensure compliance aligned data handling
• Implement database security practices
• Implement partitioning and sharding
• Manage credentials and secrets
• Meet RPO and RTO targets
• Mentor DBA standards and implementation
• Perform query optimization
• Remediate performance bottlenecks
• Support database schema changes

Perks/Benefits

• EU travel flexibility
• Hybrid work model
• Professional development opportunities
• Remote work flexibility
• Stock options program
• Work and Swim program
• Work support and care

Skills/Tech-stack

Ansible | ArgoCD | Backup Automation | Backup validation | CI/CD | Cloud logging | Connection pooling | Disaster Recovery | Execution Plan | Execution Plan Analysis | GCP | GKE | GitLab | GitOps | Grafana | High Availability | Indexing | Infrastructure as Code | Kafka | Kubernetes | Linux | Partitioning | Pgbouncer | Plan analysis | PostgreSQL | Prometheus | Query Optimization | SQL | Sharding | Streaming replication | Terraform | Vacuuming | Vault | VictoriaMetrics | “as-code”