Database Platform Expert
Job Description : Database Platform Expert
AI-first organization
10,000 database instances
Role Summary
Database Platform Expert
individual contributor role
Main Responsibilities
🔒 Security and Compliance
- Implement robust security measures and access controls to safeguard sensitive data.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
- Actively participate in security audits and assessments.
📈 Scalability and Availability
- Design and implement strategies for database scalability, replication, and clustering to support growing data volumes and high availability requirements.
- Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
⚙️ Automation and DevOps
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate database provisioning, configuration, and maintenance tasks.
- Promote the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerization technologies for database deployments.
🔍 Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and address database issues.
- Lead troubleshooting efforts during incidents to minimize downtime and data loss.
📄 Documentation and Knowledge Sharing
- Maintain detailed documentation of database configurations, procedures, and best practices.
- Share knowledge and provide mentorship to junior team members.
🚀 Stay Current
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging database technologies, and best practices.
- Evaluate and recommend new tools or technologies that can enhance the database platform's capabilities.
Education / Work Experience
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Extensive Certification on
Microsoft SQL Server
is mandatory; certification on other database technologies is preferred (e.g., MySQL and cloud-based databases).
- Certification in DevOps coding:
Terraform, Ansible
GitHub
7+ years
2+ years
Required Skills
Languages
English
is mandatory. •Proficiency in database design, performance tuning, and security.
- Strong scripting and automation coding skills (e.g., SQL, Python, PowerShell).
- Significant experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work well under pressure.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with change control, incident/problem management, CMDB configuration, validation and qualification process (GxP), troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
Minimum Preferred Skills
- Strong regulatory experience (GxP, Sarbanes-Oxley, French Data Protection Act (FDPA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).
- Ability to work with minimal supervision, engaging peers and other departments to accomplish assigned goals and effectively manage projects in a cross-functional environment.
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