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DBRE SME (Database Reliability Engineering) – Remote

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 7+ years' experience in Database Engineering or Database Reliability Engineering
  • Strong hands-on experience with Percona/MySQL
  • Commercial experience supporting MongoDB
  • Good Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills

Responsibilities

  • Optimising the performance, availability and reliability of production databases
  • Supporting and improving MongoDB and Percona/MySQL environments
  • Troubleshooting database issues and carrying out root cause analysis
  • Creating documentation, runbooks and sharing best practices with the wider engineering team

About the company

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Amach

Digital Transformation Consulting

Amach is an aviation-focused software company specialising in cloud, data, and AI innovation. Founded in Dublin and trusted by leading global airlines and airports, Amach helps aviation organisations modernise legacy systems, enhance operational performance, and accelerate digital transformation. With deep industry expertise across cloud engineering, data intelligence, and AI enablement, Amach delivers high-impact solutions that improve efficiency, resilience, and the overall passenger experience. Our team partners closely with aviation operators worldwide to build smarter, more connected, and future-ready technology ecosystems.

Company details

IndustryDigital Transformation Consulting
Company size201-500

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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.

Founded in 2013, Amach was created to solve a specific problem in aviation: too much complexity, too little usable intelligence. We help airlines modernise their operating model using cloud, data and Al-delivered by teams with deep aviation domain expertise.

Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reduce costs and increase customer experience and satisfaction.

We're looking for an experienced Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) SME to join our team and work with a leading aviation customer. This is a fully remote role where you'll play a key part in improving the reliability, performance and scalability of critical database platforms.

As the Database Reliability Engineering SME, you'll be the technical expert across open-source database technologies, with a particular focus on Percona/MySQL and MongoDB. You'll work closely with engineering teams to optimise database performance, improve resilience, support high availability and implement best practice monitoring and disaster recovery strategies.

Key responsibilities & duties include: 

  • Optimising the performance, availability and reliability of production databases.
  • Supporting and improving MongoDB and Percona/MySQL environments.
  • Reviewing and improving replica sets, sharding, replication and clustering.
  • Troubleshooting database issues and carrying out root cause analysis.
  • Designing and validating backup and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Building and improving database monitoring, observability and alerting.
  • Leading database upgrades, migrations and optimisation projects.
  • Working closely with DevOps, infrastructure and application teams to deliver reliable database platforms.
  • Creating documentation, runbooks and sharing best practices with the wider engineering team.

Required Skills: 

  • 7+ years' experience in Database Engineering or Database Reliability Engineering.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Percona/MySQL.
  • Commercial experience supporting MongoDB (including replica sets, sharding, indexing and performance tuning).
  • Experience with PostgreSQL is beneficial.
  • Strong understanding of replication, clustering and high availability.
  • Experience with backup and disaster recovery, including Percona XtraBackup.
  • Experience using monitoring tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Good Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
  • Experience working with AWS, Azure or GCP database services is an advantage

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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