Database Administrator

Buffalo, NY

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We are looking for a Database Administrator to join our growing team of technology experts ; managing, provisioning, configuring, administering, monitoring, and maintaining the database systems.

They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, tuning and troubleshooting, upgrading, backup and restore, data management and security of our transactional rational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL database (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
  • Implementation and maintenance database as database administrator.
  • Design, implementation and maintenance application database.
  • Participate in application development and support in database design and implementation.
  • Develop and maintain all database project documentation, configuration details, and production support handbooks.
  • Understands existing and new business requirements and makes technical recommendations
  • Capacity Planning.
  • Can be a team player and work independently.
  • Mentors and educates colleagues with respect to database design and implementation practices.
  • Curiosity for exploring new database technologies.
  • Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in a Database Administrator role
  • Graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or another quantitative field
  • Experience in Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud stack.
  • Experience in transactional rational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL database (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
  • Familiar in Data Warehousing databases (BigQuery, Redshift, Hadoop)
  • Experience of working with geo-distributed teams would be a plus.