Database Administrator

Role Profile:

• Development under agile methodologies,
• Candidates must therefore be able to work collaboratively, demonstrate good ownership and be able to work well in teams.
• Work will include designing, enhancing, and developing MongoDB databases and Kafka Clusters, and may occasionally require working across different database environments.
• The job will involve considering all aspects of the project life cycle and includes proof-of-concept evaluations, coding, designing, testing, implementing, deploying, and continued support of project releases as well as on-call Level 2 support.

Major Role & Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Engineering for stability, scalability, and capacity planning for some of the largest configurations on the financial industry
• DBA functions: plan & execute database schema changes, bottleneck analysis, outage prevention/resolution, server/database performance improvements, database maintenance, database recovery.
• development of tools for KAFKA and MongoDB
• Enforce database security, standards & guidelines.

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience of Python
• 3-5 years of experience with MongoDb and/or KAFKA
• Basic knowledge of other databases is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of agile and Devops is a plus.
• Versioning tools such as git is a plus.

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Pay: $65.00-$70.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Paid time off
• Vision care

Experience:

• MongoDB: 10 years (preferred)
• Kafka: 10 years (preferred)
• Python: 10 years (preferred)
• Agile/ Devops: 10 years (preferred)