Data Administrator (DBA)

Sleek is looking for an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to join their growing Platform Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong ownership mindset, excellent troubleshooting skills, and a pragmatic approach to balancing reliability, cost, and developer velocity.

Requirements

• Administer, monitor, and maintain production database environments
• Design, provision, and manage highly available and fault-tolerant database architectures
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and version migrations of database engines
• Plan and execute database migrations with minimal downtime
• Implement and manage backup, restore, point-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
• Tune database performance and capacity planning
• Set up replication and manage failover
• Define and enforce database security best practices
• Build robust monitoring, alerting, and observability for databases
• Troubleshoot production incidents and drive RCA and permanent fixes

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• Holiday schedules
• Flexi benefits scheme for home office equipment or health and fitness expenditure
• Employee share ownership plan

Originally posted on Himalayas