Senior Database Administrator at Impact Radius, Inc.

Job description

The Role

As the Database Administrator you are responsible for the planning, maintenance, and development of all aspects of the company's database infrastructure. You will be part of a small team working very closely with our international partners in our global offices. We love what we do and you will form a critical part of the team and the business as a whole.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Provide overall day-to-day management of existing database servers in production, development and quality assurance
• Lead capacity planning and provide scalability reports as appropriate
• Lead and/or participate in the installation and set up of new database servers
• Oversee and/or implement replication, backup, partitions and storage
• Run benchmarking and performance tuning (index tuning, disk optimizations, etc.) of MySQL database servers
• Implement and maintain database security systems and procedures
• Ensure regular database backups and/or restore data as needed
• Handle database upgrades and/or migrations
• Ensure database technologies are used throughout the company
• Provide assistance to and educate software developers of applicable database aspects
• Establish and maintain relationships with database vendors

Requirements

• BSc CompSci or NDip in IT
• Min. 3 years DBA experience
• Experience with installing, maintaining and tuning MySQL databases
• 2+ years of experience with MySQL with at least 1 year in a 24/7 Internet-based production environment
• Deep understanding of LINUX systems administration including tuning and optimizing database servers on LINUX platforms
• Experience with UNIX Scripting (Shell, Perl, Python, PHP)
• Experience with Data warehousing
• Start-up or Internet exposure valuable
• Motivated self-starter who loves working on very productive,dynamic teams
• Solid customer services skills including strong communication skills

Advantageous

exposure/experience with MongoDB and/or Hadoop

Benefits

Our international foothold could allow you the opportunity to travel, visit tech summits and work from of our global offices for a few weeks per year!

You get all your annual leave upfront & we have flexi-time - we trust you to manage your own time!

We love coffee like we love good code and supply you with bottomless cups of freshly brewed cups of Java!

We also love food as every Thursday is free lunch day and our in house culture club ensures that we always have something nice to nibble on.

Our games room provides our staff with some relaxation time away from the computer screen.