Desired Skills and Experience

  • Database software installation and configuration;
  • High availability;
  • Data replication solutions;
  • Automation via scripting, configuration management, processes and standards;
  • Back-up and recovery;
  • Disaster recovery;
  • Performance tuning;
  • Query Optimization;
  • Performance and errors troubleshooting;
  • Data provisioning
  • Monitoring, reporting and keeping online documentation up-to-date;
  • Support the database and application developers from the EMBL-EBI service teams and collaborate with the IT systems administrators of the EMBL-EBI IT infrastructure.
  • Supporting production systems in an academic or commercial setting within a medium to large sized heterogeneous IT environment for 3 years or more.
  • Administration, configuration and tuning of at least two among Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server.
  • Experience with one or more among SQL, Python, Shell.
  • Experience and operation of databases on Linux RedHat or equivalent within a virtualised environment.
  • You will have a solid understanding of enterprise IT Infrastructures (including compute, storage and networking).
  • The ability to work within a team, good interpersonal and communication skills and excellent working knowledge of English are required to succeed in this job. You will also need to have a service-oriented attitude, be well-organised and able to work to deadlines.
  • Experience with multi-Terabyte databases
  • Experience with one or more among Nagios, PMM, Puppet, Foreman

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