Database Administrator (m/f) | Hamburg at Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)

Desired Skills and Experience

• Plan, setup, optimize, monitor, and maintain our SQL and NoSQL database clusters;
• Work with the application teams to ensure that our data models are making the best usage of our database cluster resources;
• Closely work with other departments, such as Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Cyber Security to ensure correct and secure database access patterns;
• Act as a bridge between application teams and the underlying database infrastructure;
• Make sure our database backup and restore procedures are state of the art;
• Be responsible for troubleshooting issues and analysing incidents in our database servers together with your department colleagues and application teams;
• Be empowered to design and implement solutions to ensure our databases are properly reliable, scalable, monitored, and maintainable.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL and MongoDB administration and tuning;
• Expertise with Linux-based systems;
• Experience in troubleshooting complex database issues (query optimization, performance problems, etc);
• Experience with database backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures;
• Experience in designing and monitoring highly scalable database clusters;
• Experience with at least 2 scripting languages;
• Knowledge in ZFS and other Linux storage filesystems would be a big plus;
• Knowledge in any provisioning tools (SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, Ansible) would also be a big plus.