About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Founded in 2013, Amach was created to solve a specific problem in aviation: too much complexity, too little usable intelligence. We help airlines modernise their operating model using cloud, data and Al-delivered by teams with deep aviation domain expertise.
Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reduce costs and increase customer experience and satisfaction.
We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator to be embedded with our customer, working closely with their teams to support and optimise a diverse, multi-platform database estate. You will be responsible for database performance tuning, architecture review, reliability engineering and proactive monitoring across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle environments running on cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud) and on-premises infrastructure. This is a hands-on role where you will partner with the customer's stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in database reliability, resilience, and performance.
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- Support and assess the customer's diverse database estate across multiple platforms (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle) in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing expert guidance on platform-specific best practices
- Analyse and optimise database performance through query tuning, indexing strategy review, execution plan analysis, and session management to identify and resolve bottlenecks
- Design, review, and validate database environments for scalability, availability, resilience, and capacity planning, including configuration assessment and resource utilisation analysis
- Establish and oversee backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies including replication, failover mechanisms, and recovery testing to ensure the customer's recovery objectives are achievable and validated
- Implement comprehensive database monitoring and observability solutions, proactively investigating trends, identifying risks, and driving improvements to overall platform health
- Work collaboratively with the customer's technical teams to troubleshoot issues, provide root cause analysis, and recommend practical solutions
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives based on data-driven insights and industry best practices to enhance database reliability and performance
Required Experience:
- Strong working knowledge of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle across both cloud and on-premises environments including AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and traditional datacentres
- Solid understanding of query tuning, indexing strategies, execution plans, session management, and database performance analysis
- Demonstrated experience designing and reviewing database environments for scalability, availability, resilience, and capacity planning
- Good understanding of backup and restore strategies, high availability solutions, replication, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery approaches
- Proven experience with database monitoring, observability, and proactive problem management with a naturally curious and data-driven mindset
Desirable skills:
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for database deployment and configuration management
- Familiarity with database security hardening, compliance frameworks, and access control management
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.
If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional database administration experience
- Strong production expertise with SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL
- Understanding of database performance tuning, backup strategies, and disaster recovery
- Experience supporting cloud databases such as AWS RDS, Azure SQL, or Google Cloud SQL
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with customer technical teams
- Experience with aviation or airline software systems
- Familiarity with data warehousing or big data platforms
- Background in database security and compliance frameworks
What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security. We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers. Why choose Amach: 1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner. 2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines. 3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced. 4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned. 5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner. 6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention. 7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs. We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction. If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
