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Senior Database Administrator

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 5+ years

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Kraken👥 1001-5000💰 Secondary Market about 1 year ago🫂 Last layoff 4 months agoEthereumBlockchainBitcoinFinTechTrading Platform

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

Requirements:
  • Expert knowledge of MariaDB/MySQL (5+ years) with experience in high-volume production environments, advanced replication schemes, sharding, and tuning
  • Familiarity with database proxies like HAProxy, ProxySQL, and MaxScale for high availability and load balancing
  • Strong programming and scripting skills e.g. Bash, Python, Go or similar
  • Have the right automation mindset and proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, Gitops, and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, IAM) and cloud-native best practices
  • Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/Nomad for managing scalable and resilient database infrastructure
  • Deep understanding of database security, access control, patching, and compliance best practices
  • Experience with visualization and DB monitoring stack e.g. Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Consul, Pagerduty, etc
Responsibilities:
  • Scale and optimize a distributed high-load MariaDB cluster, ensuring high performance and scalability
  • Enhance and improve high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, and monitoring solutions
  • Troubleshoot various performance and availability issues across the database and infrastructure stack
  • Manage database security, patching, and upgrades while ensuring best practices
  • Bring a DevOps mindset to database operations, implementing automation, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows
  • Improve infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies
  • Help development teams be more productive through better tooling, automation, and best practices
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide off-hours production support when needed
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