Database Administrator at takealot.com

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This position reports to the Data Platform Team Lead

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Develop and support multiple MySQL and Postgres database instances, including cloud based solutions

• Manage database capacity and usage, and able to highlight trends and future requirements

• Monitor and optimise database performance

• Develop, manage and improve high-availability solutions including Disaster Recovery

• Develop backup and recovery procedures

• Develop and support database replication

• Work with team mates to improve processes and standards

• Support the creation and maintenance of development and test database environments

• Management of database script review, improvement and approval process

• Be on-call for after-hours support as part of rotation in team

The skills we need:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy

• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions

• Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems

• Solid quantitative skills

• Ability to interview and interact professionally with internal and external people

• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally

• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

• Able to function with minimal supervision, drive own initiatives

• Forward thinking with the ability to be innovative and drive initiatives

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, with a major in a quantitative subject and a minimum of 3 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g. in e-commerce, consulting, engineering) is required. 

• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree (with a major in a quantitative subject), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g. in e-commerce, consulting, engineering). 

• Demonstrated experience with relational database physical design

• A thorough understanding of database principles

• Experience with open source relational database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

• CloudSQL/RDS will be beneficial 

• Experience in Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Storage, Security)

• Solid understanding of virtualization, cloud computing, containers (GCP/AWS preferably)

• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, OpsGenie, and Percona will be beneficial

• Practical experience working with other database systems like BigQuery, Redis and ElasticSearch will be beneficial

• Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Lambda/Kappa architectures will be beneficial