Technical skills
Node.jsPythonSQLAWSCloud platformsSRE
Methods
Agile
About this role
As a Database Administrator , you will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and improving IBM Db2 database environments running primarily in AWS, with a focus on performance, availability, capacity, and reliability. You will work as part of a geographically distributed technology team and collaborate closely with Platform Architects, Infrastructure, Development, and Operations teams.
Duties and
Responsibilities
- · Manage and maintain database environments hosted in AWS, including databases running within EC2 HADR environments
- · Monitor and optimize database performance, availability, capacity, and overall reliability
- · Support IBM Db2 environments and contribute to database-related projects, upgrades, and improvements
- · Support PostgreSQL environments where applicable
- · Manage and troubleshoot high-availability database clusters, including multi-node environments
- · Support disaster recovery (DR), backup and recovery, and database resilience activities
- · Investigate and resolve database-related L2/L3 incidents, including performance issues, cluster issues, system jobs, and other production incidents
- · Participate in the investigation and resolution of P1/P2 incidents, including after-hours incidents when required
- · Monitor database and infrastructure environments using relevant observability and monitoring tools
- · Support database migrations, upgrades, configuration changes, and other technical projects
- · Perform capacity management and identify potential performance, storage, or resource constraints before they affect production systems
- · Work within established incident and change management processes, ensuring issues and changes are properly investigated, documented, and resolved
- · Collaborate with Platform Architects and other technical teams on platform governance, automation, and database best practices
- · Contribute to automation and improvements that make database operations more efficient, reliable, and repeatable
- · Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding to production incidents and support requests within the expected response time
- · Work effectively with geographically distributed teams and communicate clearly with colleagues across different regions
Requirements
- · Solid hands-on experience as a Database Administrator or in a closely related database infrastructure role
- · At least 3 years of hands-on AWS experience supporting mission-critical production database environments
- · Strong experience with PostgreSQL or another relevant enterprise relational database
- · Strong experience of database maintenance including performance, high availability, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and capacity management
- · Experience troubleshooting production database issues, including performance problems, cluster issues, system jobs, and availability-related incidents.
- · Experience working with Linux/operating systems in a database or infrastructure environment
- · Experience working with incident and change management processes, particularly in a production or mission-critical environment
- · Ability to independently investigate technical issues and demonstrate clear ownership of database-related problems
- · Experience working with cloud infrastructure, database tooling, monitoring, or observability platforms
- · Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed technical teams
- · Willingness and ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, including responding to critical incidents outside regular working hours
- Advantageous or
Nice to have
- s:
- · Hands-on experience with IBM DB2, particularly DB2 on AWS/EC2
- · Strong PostgreSQL experience
- · Experience with high-availability clusters, disaster recovery, and backup/recovery
- · Experience with Bash/shell/Python scripting and automation
- · Familiarity with Bitbucket, JIRA, and observability/monitoring tools
- · Experience supporting cloud migrations, upgrades, and mission-critical systems
- · IBM DB2 certification is an advantage