Database Administrator

3 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Cover Genius Full time

**The Company**

Our team and products have been recognised with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

**Our People are**

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

**Our People are not**

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

**About the role**

DBREs will also help design solutions for large-scale engineering challenges such as how to support multi-regional scaling and data sovereignty requirements. Along with SREs, DBREs are responsible for writing and maintaining datastore-related technical documentation such as tutorials, guides, and blameless post-mortems.

**What your working week will involve**:

- Deployment, upgrade and maintenance of datastores
- Troubleshoot database related production incidents (On Call)
- Develop, test and maintain disaster recovery procedures for datastores
- Implement monitoring and alerting using key database metrics
- Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation and runbooks
- Optimize and control costs of the company’s storage infrastructure

**Educational Qualifications**:

- Bachelors or higher degree in related field is required

**What the ideal profile looks like**:

- Understanding of SRE Principles and best practices
- At least 5 years experience running major database technologies in production, especially PostgreSQL and MySQL. Experienced running these technologies in cloud environments ideally AWS RDS.
- Experience operating other NoSQL datastores and cache technologies especially Elasticsearch, Redis, S3, Bigquery and RabbitMQ.
- Excellent understanding of SQL and SQL database performance optimization.
- Comfortable scripting & developing internal tooling with Bash or at least one programming language (e.g. python, go)
- Familiar with internals of PostgreSQL
- Experience working with infrastructure & configuration as code tools especially Terraform
- Experience working with Linux
- Solid theoretical understanding of underlying datastorage technologies and tradeoffs
- Good knowledge of AWS and/or GCP platforms and associated best practices
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience

**Why Cover Genius?**

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
- Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical. Soon after the declaration of the COVID-19 global pandemic the entire CG team was granted an extra 15 days of Wellness Leave to take throughout 2020.
- Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
- Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
- Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat
- Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, dem_**_e_**_aning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status._

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