B2B Senior Database Administrator

This role is remote in Poland. We are only able to accept applications for those based in Poland or have sponsorship to live and work in Poland.  

What you'll do at Jamf: 

At Jamf, we empower people to be their best selves and do their best work. You will join a unit of Cloud Engineers that contribute to Jamf Security portfolio. Some of us work from one of our offices - Brno, Emmen and London - and others are partially or fully remote. We deploy our solutions on the best cloud providers - AWS, GCP and Azure. Our infrastructure is declared with Terraform and configured with Puppet. We build and maintain over 20 K8s and K3s clusters all around the world with Rancher at the helm of it. 

The Senior Database Administrator works with the Product Development and Delivery team to provide installation, monitoring, fine-tuning, backup, recovery, and issue resolution for database technologies used in delivering JAMF products. Responsible for building, configuring and operating the cloud infrastructure that underpins the database technologies in accordance with service level agreements and providing support to both staff and customers. This position performs all primary duties of a Database Administrator along with additional responsibilities for mentorship and leadership for other members of the team along with the continued growth and improvements to our database technologies.

What you can expect to do in this role: 

• Provide technical guidance, strategic direction and operational mentorship.
• Work with the rest of the DBA team and cloud leadership to design and implement the public cloud infrastructure that supports Jamf database systems. 
• Work with the rest of the DBA team and cloud leadership to design and implement Jamf database systems.
• Participate in system administration duties, remote access, maintenance of server’s integrity, data backups and restoration, and offsite storage
• Proactively monitor all databases and related cloud infrastructure to detect and resolve problems and ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Work closely with JAMF Software Development team on interrelated products.
• Estimate accurately both time to complete tasks and impact of changes.
• Drive continuous improvements within the JAMF Cloud infrastructure.
• Work with JAMF Software’s technical team to bring current industry best practices to scale our systems to meet ever expanding demand.
• Track and follow and, when required, escalate events in a timely manner to the appropriate individual according to documented procedures.
• Maintain the Online Services technical documentation of processes and procedures.
• When required, participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Identify techniques and tools that will enhance the capabilities of the team to be more effective.
• Act as an active advisor to department management team.
• Build a deep understanding of workflows that make a JAMF Software customer successful.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned.

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What we are looking for: 

• Minimum of 5 years experience managing large database clusters implemented using one of the most popular database technologies (MySQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) (Required).
• Minimum of 5 years experience managing NoSQL database instances and/or columnar-based databases(Preferred).
• Minimum of 2 years Amazon RDS and EC2 knowledge (Required).
• Minimum of 5 years Familiarity with Linux, Tomcat, and Apache (Required).
• Minimum of 2 years experience with system and infrastructure configuration tools (such as Terraform, Cloud Formation. Ansible and Puppet).
• Minimum of 2 years experience with modern monitoring tools (preferably Prometheus and Grafana, but others such as CloudWatch, New Relic, Datadog are also accepted).
• Minimum of 2 years experience with major public providers: AWS (preferred), Azure, GCP.
• Strong Communication Skills.
• Excellent Interpersonal Skills.
• Excellent Organizational Skills.
• Proven Analytical Skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical terms in an easy to understand, non-technical manner.
• Self-starter, energetic multi-tasker, highly motivated and team player.
• Ability to engage with and establish trust and rapport with all levels of customers and employees.
• Apple Platform.
• Agile.
• Ability to adapt and solve challenges quickly and efficiently.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• High School Diploma / GED Equivalent (Required).
• 4 Year / Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred).
• A combination of relevant experience and education may be considered.

Why Jamf?

• We are progressive but laid back. You are free to be a yourself and work how you work best. Here, you manage your own day and your own work style.  
• Named a 2022 Best Workplace in Technology by Great Place to Work and Fortune Magazine 
• Named a 100 Best Companies to Work For by Great Place to Work® and Fortune Magazine 
• You will have the opportunity to work with a small and empowered team where the culture is based on trust, ownership, and respect. 
• We offer flexible work-life in a choice-based office model and new hires receive a home office bonus to better their work space.  
• Benefits are a critical part of the “whole employee experience”. 
• Visit our Jamf Engineering blog to learn more about the innovative projects our team is working on and what we learn from each challenge we solve. A blog written by engineers, for engineers at medium.com/jamf-engineering