Accela is hiring a
Senior Database Administrator

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Accela

💵 ~$177k-$266k
📍Remote - Costa Rica

Summary

Join Accela's Costa Rica team as a Senior Database Engineer and contribute to the company's global growth strategy. As an integral part of the Accela Database Engineering team, you will collaborate with world-class application engineers and a leadership team renowned for their expertise in Architecture, Operations, and Security. The role involves participating in on-call rotation, production support activities, maintenance, and application releases, as well as driving incidents to resolution and implementing permanent solutions to prevent recurrence.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience in a related field
  • 5+ years of SQL Server experience in production
  • 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience in production
  • 2+ years of Azure/Cloud experience
  • Proficiency in Azure Cloud Native Services, including Azure SQL Database as a Service, Azure Infrastructure as a Service, and Azure Networking and DNS
  • Comprehensive experience in Database Management, covering SQL Server Availability Groups, SQL Server Log Shipping, Replication, and Database Mirroring, SQL Server High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR), Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting, Backup and Recovery
  • Mastery in Windows System Administration and Windows Clustering
  • Expertise in creating, modifying, troubleshooting, and maintaining PowerShell Automation Scripts
  • Experience managing 24x7 production database systems
  • Capability to remediate operational performance of database processes for transactional, batch, and reporting workloads
  • Proficiency in system health monitoring tools like DB Monitoring – Idera SQL DM and Datadog
  • Strong experience working with Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
  • Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning in Azure Cloud
  • Ability to create automated remediation procedures

Responsibilities

  • Participate in on-call rotation, production support activities, maintenance, and application releases
  • Complete customer requests within agreed-upon OLA
  • Complete projects/Go-Lives as per the agreed-upon schedule
  • Drive incidents to resolution and implement permanent solutions to prevent recurrence
  • Develop PowerShell automation to replace manual tasks; support existing PowerShell automation and contribute towards future enhancements

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits in line with local standards
  • Remote work options where feasible so employees can work in an environment that sparks motivation and creativity
  • Generous paid time off with paid holidays, paid annual leave, paid “wellness days” offered sporadically throughout the year to focus on rest and relaxation, and a company “soft-close” during the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
  • Non-promotional learning and development opportunities for skills enhancement through on-the-job training and internal and external education, including a paid LinkedIn Learning subscription to all employees

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