Offer summary

Qualifications:

At least 5 years of experience in database engineering or administration., Hands-on experience with AWS, including RDS and EC2 instances., Deep knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server., Proficiency with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and scripting languages like Python, Go, or Bash..

Key responsibilities:

Coordinate team activities and report achievements.

Monitor and troubleshoot database performance issues.

Implement and maintain database policies, procedures, and documentation.

Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure database reliability and performance.

Job description

About us:

Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.

Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.

Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…

The Senior DBRE coordinates team activities, tracks and reports achievements, defines and documents processes and troubleshoots escalated issues. This is a hands-on role involving database monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, installation, maintenance and disaster recovery. The Senior DBRE must be an effective communicator with solid relationship management skills.

Required Skills & Experience:

5+ years of experience in database engineering or administration roles
5+ years hands-on experience with AWS. Design, deployment and management of highly available database workloads using managed DB services (RDS) and EC2 instances
Deep expertise with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and preferably at least one distributed database (e.g., Cassandra, CockroachDB, Amazon Aurora, etc.)
Proficiency in database internals, query planners, replication and sharding techniques
Must be proficient with tools that manage configurations and infrastructure, including Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Liquibase, and Flyway.
Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Go or Bash
Experience with CICD pipelines and GitOps workflows
Knowledge of SRE practices and observability tools
Knowledge of the development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations

Key responsibilities & duties include:

Setting up, installing, configuring, and running all database software and infrastructure. Keeping them well-maintained.
Work closely with the engineering teams to coordinate and manage code changes and deployments to ensure ongoing availability and reliability
Collaborate with Engineering, Data & Analytics, DevOps, and Architecture teams to improve performance. Work towards building a reliable and adjustable infrastructure that serves business requirements.
Analyse trending data and provide performance recommendations addressing specific DB/system performance issues
Promptly creates Incident Reports to build/update the Knowledge Base
Developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of all databases and their accompanying software
Develop and modify technical documentation that describes installation and maintenance standards and procedures
Troubleshoot, solution and communicate problems and failures with databases
Review new industry developments to explore advantages which might be utilised by our customer
Look for opportunities for guiding change within the department by examining processes within the team and across IT to ensure they are proficient and delivering satisfactorily to the other business units

Desirable Skills:

Exemplary analytical and problem-solving skills
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and autonomously
Proven track record in building inclusive organisations and working across teams to achieve common goals
Mentoring and training of DBRE personnel
Knowledge sharing with the team on the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many sessions so they can transfer technical skills with colleagues

What’s in it for you:

An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
Options for career advancement
Learning and development opportunities
Flexible working environment
Competitive salaries based on experience

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.

If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!

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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.

Your personal data

Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
Accurate and kept up to date
Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
Kept securely

If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: info@amach.com

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