Who we are
We're a leading, global security authority that's disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands, the world's largest companies, the major cloud providers, entire country financial systems, entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. That's digital trust for the real world.
Job summary
The Database Administrator (DBA) will collaborate with a global team of database administrators to design, automate, build, operate, and continuously enhance the database services that support our customer-facing SaaS products. Your responsibilities will include creating and maintaining highly available database solutions that prioritize security, scalability, monitoring, upgradeability, and robust data backup and recovery processes across production environments. You will thrive in a fast-paced setting, acquiring new skills quickly and developing innovative methods to consistently uphold service-level agreements for our global services.
What you will do
- Designing, automating, building, maintaining, and continuously improving multiple database services including MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Cassandra.
- Performing routine database maintenance tasks such as backups, restores, and upgrades.
- Maintaining high availability and disaster recovery configurations to ensure database system recoverability.
- Implementing and maintaining monitoring configurations to track database health, performance, and utilization.
- Migrating VM based deployments to containerized solutions or managed services in AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Working closely with development and application support teams to design, build, deploy, support, and monitor new and existing deployments, including gathering requirements and documenting the solution.
- Supporting the migration of legacy deployments to modernized design patterns.
- Acting as backup for other team members when necessary.
- Providing on-call support and working off-hours as needed to ensure database reliability and availability.
- Bi-weekly rotating shifts are necessary to ensure coverage during weekends.
What you will have
- 3+ years of experience as a database administrator, focused on MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Cassandra.
- 3+ years of Information Technology experience, working on large scale enterprise systems and working within the Linux operating system.
- Extensive experience with relational databases, including installation, configuration, and upgrading.
- Experience with database performance tuning and optimization.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and replication techniques (e.g., replication, logical replication, etc.)
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment working on projects against strict deadlines.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, system reliability engineers and other business units.
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot user facing service incidents & outages.
Nice to have
- Experience with database monitoring tools and techniques (e.g., New Relic, Splunk, DSE Operator, etc.).
- Intermediate knowledge of private and public cloud infrastructure platforms (VMware/AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Experience with automation or CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab or SaltStack.
Benefits
- Generous time off policies
- Top shelf benefits
- Education, wellness and lifestyle support
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DigiCert is the digital trust provider of choice for leading companies around the globe, enabling individuals, businesses, governments, and consortia to engage online with confidence, knowing their digital footprint is secure.
