Institute of Informatics and CommunicationIIC jobs - Database Administrator

- Apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline and mature automation, specializing in databases (MySQL and MongoDB in particular)- Work on database reliability and performance aspects with the programming and R&D teams, as well as work on shipping solutions with the product.- Analyze solutions and implement best practices for our main MySQL and MongoDB database cluster and its components.- Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.- Work with peers to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.- OnCall support to the team.- Identify the SLO (Service Level Objectives) that will align the team to meet the availability and latency objectives.- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).- Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.- Plan the growth of database infrastructure.- Design, build and maintain core database infrastructure pieces that allow to scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.- Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.- Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.- Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.- Leads and participates in several projects, having an overview and giving input on projects to be accomplished with the best performance and lower impact.