Job Details

• Ensuring performance, security, and availability of databases
• Performing database procedures, such as upgrades, backup, recovery and migrations with zero/minimum downtime
• Administering user access privileges
• Performing database backups and restores
• Deploying database DDL changes
• Tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests within SLA
• Communicating with international team members and stakeholders
• Launching of database instances
• Performing configuration changes on database systems
• Escalating production issues to senior DBA members
• Preparing documentation for standard operating procedures
• Following standard processes for change control, incidents and maintenance
• Effective with time management and ability to manage priority tasks and requests
• Providing production support with rotational shifts and participating in oncall rotation
• The role will have shiftbase hours

• 3-6 years of strong experience of database administration with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• 2 years of experience with Oracle desired
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving issues with backup and restore operations, user access, data replication, connectivity and database performance
• Experience in performance tuning, query optimization and related monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Experience troubleshooting system issues with Linux operating systems
• 2 years of experience with scripting languages such as Unix shell, Python, Perl
• Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Good technical documentation skills to create standard operating procedures
• Ability to effectively communicate with international teams in multiple locations
• Ability to work with multiple database technologies

Reference ID - GH/Telecom/JC//26072019//85449/Database Administrator- MySQL and/or PostgreSQL