Database Administrator

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed. 

We are looking for a Database Administrator to join our team in Argentina.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for backups, testing, and regular database maintenance
• Enhance and optimize existing databases for peak performance
• Write up documentation and share knowledge with other Engineering stakeholders
• Monitor and analyze database performance and ensure effective and efficient utilization of database systems/processes 
• Solve complex technical issues involving multiple technology stacks 
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code  
• Maintain a high bar for quality and performance of your product with vigorous attention to detail and automated testing  
• Continuously improve how we design, build, and ship software as a highly functional team
• Part of on-call duties and respond to high priority incident pager

• Be a force-multiplier on the velocity and quality of your team

• Closely collaborate with fellow Engineers and Product Managers and interact with stakeholders across the organization to build data products 
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Workplace: Remote based in Argentina

Must Have Skills:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience with continuous integration, delivery, desired state processes tools and constraints
• Willing to learn and adapt quickly to changes and keep up with fast pace environment 
• Skills for developing deploying & debugging cloud applications    
• Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills 
• 3+ years of practical experience building and supporting Postgres and Azure SQL databases 
• Extensive experience with query tuning and troubleshooting 
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash and other command line utilities 
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing high availability and disaster recovery programs 
• Excellent SQL programming: writing, maintaining and testing codes using “outside the box” approach 
• Ability to participate in and contribute to code management in GitHub including actively collaborating in peer-reviews, feature branches, and resolving conflicts and commits  
• Advanced knowledge in database administration, including experience with a variety of database, cloud applications, and distributed processing technologies  
• Adaptable to change and able to work independently and as part of a team 
• Experience with Kafka or similar distributed stream processing systems beneficial 
• Strong sense of responsibility with a bias towards action  
• Ability to understand complicated problems and craft into simple solutions that can be maintained by the rest of the team  

• Be a subject matter expert and show ownership of database management 

   

Preferred Skills:

• Previous Database Migration and SSIS/ADF exposure a plus  
• Azure experience a plus 
• Terraform knowledge preferred 
• Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB a plus 

Professional Skills:

• Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Be a good team player and respect fellow team members
• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Comfortable self-directing and prioritizing your own work 
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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