Database Administrator (m/f) | Hamburg

Description

Join the financial revolution!

Join Kreditech and our team of over 300 professionals and become part of a transforming industry. From engineering, to design, to analytics, and collections, we do things differently and we reward great ideas, teamwork and persistence. We have a lot of work to do – and we want you to join us! As part of our site reliability engineering team, you will be responsible to make sure our mission critical applications and systems are reliable and ready for Internet scale.

Your Role

• Plan, setup, optimize, monitor, and maintain our SQL and NoSQL database clusters;
• Work with the application teams to ensure that our data models are making the best usage of our database cluster resources;
• Closely work with other departments, such as Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Cyber Security to ensure correct and secure database access patterns;
• Act as a bridge between application teams and the underlying database infrastructure;
• Make sure our database backup and restore procedures are state of the art;
• Be responsible for troubleshooting issues and analysing incidents in our database servers together with your department colleagues and application teams;
• Be empowered to design and implement solutions to ensure our databases are properly reliable, scalable, monitored, and maintainable.

Your Strengths

• Expertise in PostgreSQL and MongoDB administration and tuning;
• Expertise with Linux-based systems;
• Experience in troubleshooting complex database issues (query optimization, performance problems, etc);
• Experience with database backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures;
• Experience in designing and monitoring highly scalable database clusters;
• Experience with at least 2 scripting languages;
• Knowledge in ZFS and other Linux storage filesystems would be a big plus;
• Knowledge in any provisioning tools (SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, Ansible) would also be a big plus.

How to apply

We accept applications exclusively through our recruiting platform, found under the ‘Apply Now’ link.