Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

Aera Technology is a pioneer in the growing category of Decision Intelligence – the technology to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making processes with AI and machine learning. Through our AI decision automation platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, we are helping the best-known brands in the world make smarter, faster decisions.

Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable.

The primary responsibilities for this role will be defining and executing our cloud database strategy. You will be responsible for developing database automation, and designing complex replication networks interfacing with data pipelines to move data between disparate applications to support our Data Engineering and Data Science teams.

The appropriate candidate for this role must be based in Mexico and be comfortable working remotely.

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

About You

• 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)

Nice to Have

• 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