Senior Cloud Database Administrator (Remote)

About AppDirect

Become a digital, global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product, through any channel, on any device - as a service. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations. We do this by our values-driven culture - one that enables you to Be Seen, Be Yourself, and Do Your Best Work

About You

We are looking to hire a skilled and ambitious Senior Cloud Database Administrator in the Data Platform team. We love entrepreneurial spirit and someone that has a data as a service mindset. You are also highly technical, with a strong drive to learn and a sense for efficiency through automation?  Do you strive to connect data to business outcomes?  Then this might be the opportunity for you!

What You’ll Do and How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead EC2 to Aurora RDS migration projects
• Improved our Database security posture with least privileges principles, auditing capabilities and facilitate database access & governance by onboarding hundreds of users onto StrongDM
• Guide engineers in providing purpose-built database solutions(Relational,Key Value,Document) that fits requirements
• Accelerate operations by designing and implementing self-healing & automated solutions
• Research solutions to complex problems and drive proof-of-concepts
• Develop and maintain knowledge base through high-quality documentation
• Deliver quality solutions/process through CI/CD and automation

What You’ll Need

• Strong familiarity with both MongoDB and (MySQL or PostgreSQL) database systems on Linux based environments.
• 2+ years experience with AWS services (e.g. RDS & Amazon Aurora, EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, IAM)
• Analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Experience with Infrastructure as code using terraform & git
• Experience in Scripting/automation tooling (bash/python or Ansible)
• Good knowledge and understanding of data structures and experience handling large data sets
• Ability to self-manage, think critically, handle multiple tasks and/or projects and deliver solutions autonomously
• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas to a technical audience
• Experience working in an Agile Kanban environment
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas & Microsoft Azure is recommended
• Experience with SQL Server is an asset

At AppDirect, we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence, experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

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