Senior Database Administrator, Performance Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Database Administrator and Performance Engineer on Cloud Operations team. Ensuring database availability, performance, and collaboration with development teams at Agiloft.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor, measure, and recommend optimizations for the performance of database transactions generated by web applications and batch workloads.
  • Optimize database indexes and analyze query performance to identify inefficiencies, recommending changes to enhance performance.
  • Troubleshoot database performance issues reported in production; recommend and implement solutions to resolve.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize logical schema designs of existing systems and new enhancements for maximum efficiency.
  • Contribute to the maintenance, optimization, automation and testing of robust backup/restore and disaster recovery processes, ensuring data durability, integrity and availability.
  • Contribute to IaC on AWS, to ensure scalability, security and reliability.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to infrastructure, DBs and applications.
  • Conduct performance tuning and capacity planning for database environments.
  • Stay current with industry trends and best practices, recommending tools and techniques to improve database performance and reliability.
  • Document database configurations, processes, and performance metrics for internal knowledge sharing.
  • Leverage AI-assisted tools to enhance productivity, improve processes and workflows, and overall support everyday work.
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, with a strong focus on performance engineering.
  • Proficiency with AWS database services (e.g., Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora) and their management.
  • Extensive experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and index management.
  • Solid understanding of backup/restore methodologies, real-time replication optimization, and disaster recovery processes.
  • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with multiple relational database management systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server.
  • Experience with adopting AI to supplement code development (Cursor, Copilot)
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to optimizing database systems.

Benefits

  • floating holidays
  • quarterly wellness day
  • healthy work/life balance

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$120,000 - $150,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSMS SQL ServerMySQLPostgresSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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