Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

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Full Remote
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Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Cassandra, Oracle, Hana, or Hadoop., 3+ years of data warehouse administration experience on AWS and/or Azure., 2+ years of experience with modern distributed container management systems like Kubernetes or Docker., Strong skills in database automation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting..

Key responsibilities:

  • Maintain and optimize global database systems for enterprise engineering.
  • Build, scale, and manage Data Warehouse, RDBMS, NoSQL, and Graph databases.
  • Develop automation tools to improve database administration and management.
  • Support day-to-day operations, incident management, and disaster recovery exercises.

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Aera Technology https://aeratechnology.com/
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Job description

Aera Technology is a pioneer in the growing category of Decision Intelligence – the technology to digitize, augment, and automate decisionmaking processes with AI and machine learning. Through our AI decision automation platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, we are helping the bestknown brands in the world make smarter, faster decisions.

Privatelyheld and VCfunded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable.

The primary responsibilities for this role will be defining and executing our cloud database strategy. You will be responsible for developing database automation, and designing complex replication networks interfacing with data pipelines to move data between disparate applications to support our Data Engineering and Data Science teams.

The appropriate candidate for this role must be based in Mexico and be comfortable working remotely.

Responsibilities
  • Work on a team of highly technical and talented database engineers responsible for maintaining the global database systems for Enterprise Engineering
  • Build, scale, and administer Data Warehouse, RDBMS, NoSQL and Graph database infrastructure with a focus on the performance, availability and growth needs of the company.
  • Improve and optimize database administration and management with coding and automation
  • Support daytoday operations and escalations of the database systems
  • Contribute to meeting KPIs and SLAs through management of task queues
  • Support largescale global disaster recovery exercises while working closely with other infrastructure, production and business teams at Aera
  • Build an ecosystem supported by fullcoverage automation with a bias towards build vs. buy and selfservice as a primary objective
  • Troubleshooting, faultisolation and communication across the infrastructure, applications and business teams

  • About You
  • 5+ years experience administering MySQL, Cassandra DB, Oracle, Hana, Hadoop, or other relational, data warehouse or NoSQL database covering designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in a production environment.
  • 3+ years’ experience of data warehouse administration on AWS andor Azure
  • 2+ years’ experience with modern distributed container cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Docker)

  • Nice to Have
  • Experience administering RDBMS (Oracle, MSSQL), Analytical DBs (Exasol, Hana, Redshift, Postgres), GraphDB (Neo4j, AWS Neptune) covering designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in a production environment
  • Experience building, securing and automating enterprise scale infrastructure and systems
  • Experience with the use of Data Loss Prevention, EncryptionTokenization, Database Activity Monitoring technologies
  • Experience with continuous integration tools such as: Jenkins, Liquidbase, Flyway, etc. a BIG plus.
  • Exasol (data warehouse) experience is also highly desired
  • If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you’re in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, were a series C startup, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and ClujNapoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and let’s build this!

    Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Aera Technology will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

    Benefits Summary
    We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package for employees in Mexico, which includes both statutory entitlements and additional perks from Aera and our local partner, Incoraxis.

    Benefits Required by Law:
    IMSS – Governmentbacked health insurance
    INFONAVIT – Housing credit access
    Paid Vacation – While the law mandates 6 vacation days after the first year, Aera offers 12 vacation days starting after your first 3 months of employment
    Prima Vacacional – Vacation bonus (25% of vacation pay)
    Aguinaldo – Yearend Christmas bonus (15 days of pay)

    Additional Benefits Provided by AeraIncoraxis:
    Private Health Insurance
    Home Office Allowance – MXN $750 per month
  • Required profile

    Experience

    Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
    Spoken language(s):
    English
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    Other Skills

    • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
    • Communication

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