Senior Database Administrator

Summary

Join Aera Technology, a pioneer in Decision Intelligence, and contribute to our cloud database strategy. You will develop database automation, design complex replication networks, and move data between applications to support Data Engineering and Data Science teams. This role requires a strong background in database administration and a deep understanding of various database technologies. The position is based in Mexico with remote work capabilities. Aera offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including statutory entitlements and additional perks.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience administering MySQL, Cassandra DB, Oracle, Hana, Hadoop, or other relational, data warehouse or No-SQL database covering designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in a production environment
• 3+ years’ experience of data warehouse administration on AWS and/or Azure
• 2+ years’ experience with modern distributed container cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Docker)

Responsibilities

• Work on a team of highly technical and talented database engineers responsible for maintaining the global database systems for Enterprise Engineering
• Build, scale, and administer Data Warehouse, RDBMS, NoSQL and Graph database infrastructure with a focus on the performance, availability and growth needs of the company
• Improve and optimize database administration and management with coding and automation
• Support day-to-day operations and escalations of the database systems
• Contribute to meeting KPIs and SLAs through management of task queues
• Support large-scale global disaster recovery exercises while working closely with other infrastructure, production and business teams at Aera
• Build an ecosystem supported by full-coverage automation with a bias towards build vs. buy and self-service as a primary objective
• Troubleshooting, fault-isolation and communication across the infrastructure, applications and business teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience administering RDBMS (Oracle, MSSQL), Analytical DBs (Exasol, Hana, Redshift, Postgres), GraphDB (Neo4j, AWS Neptune) covering designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in a production environment
• Experience building, securing and automating enterprise scale infrastructure and systems
• Experience with the use of Data Loss Prevention, Encryption/Tokenization, Database Activity Monitoring technologies
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as: Jenkins, Liquidbase, Flyway, etc. a BIG plus
• Exasol (data warehouse) experience is also highly desired

Benefits

• IMSS – Government-backed health insurance
• INFONAVIT – Housing credit access
• Paid Vacation – While the law mandates 6 vacation days after the first year, Aera offers 12 vacation days starting after your first 3 months of employment
• Prima Vacacional – Vacation bonus (25% of vacation pay)
• Aguinaldo – Year-end Christmas bonus (15 days of pay)
• Private Health Insurance
• Home Office Allowance – MXN $750 per month