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.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
The DBRE Lead coordinates team activities, tracks and reports achievements, defines and documents processes and troubleshoots escalated issues. This is a hands-on role involving database monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, installation, maintenance and disaster recovery. The successful candidate must be an effective communicator with solid relationship management skills.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in database engineering or administration roles
- 5+ years hands-on experience with AWS. Design, deployment and management of highly available database workloads using managed DB services (RDS) and EC2 instances
- Deep expertise with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and preferably at least one distributed database (e.g., Cassandra, CockroachDB, Amazon Aurora, etc.)
- Proficiency in database internals, query planners, replication and sharding techniques
- Must be proficient with tools that manage configurations and infrastructure, including Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Liquibase, and Flyway.
- Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Go or Bash
- Experience with CICD pipelines and GitOps workflows
- Knowledge of SRE practices and observability tools
- Knowledge of the development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- Setting up, installing, configuring, and running all database software and infrastructure. Keeping them well-maintained.
- Work closely with the engineering teams to coordinate and manage code changes and deployments to ensure ongoing availability and reliability
- Collaborate with Engineering, Data & Analytics, DevOps, and Architecture teams to improve performance. Work towards building a reliable and adjustable infrastructure that serves business requirements.
- Analyse trending data and provide performance recommendations addressing specific DB/system performance issues
- Promptly creates Incident Reports to build/update the Knowledge Base
- Developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of all databases and their accompanying software
- Develop and modify technical documentation that describes installation and maintenance standards and procedures
- Troubleshoot, solution and communicate problems and failures with databases
- Review new industry developments to explore advantages which might be utilised by our customer
- Look for opportunities for guiding change within the department by examining processes within the team and across IT to ensure they are proficient and delivering satisfactorily to the other business units
Desirable Skills:
- Exemplary analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and autonomously
- Proven track record in building inclusive organisations and working across teams to achieve common goals
- Mentoring and training of DBRE personnel
- Knowledge sharing with the team on the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many sessions so they can transfer technical skills with colleagues
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]
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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]
