Accela is hiring a
Senior Database Administrator

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