Lead Database Administrator

2 months ago

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Zid Full time

Company Description
**Who we are?**

Become a Zider Tech member and join this amazing company that is on top of the e-commerce game Join a company that is not only growing but having fun while doing it. We are a human centric organization with huge growth plans and with a purpose to help more and more people with little or no digital experience to start their online business (e-commerce), move their offline to online or grow their offline businesses even more by having an online presence.

**Where are we coming from and where are we going?**

Zid has had a tremendous grow over the last 5 years. From 5 people to 300+ people at present and counting. Our revenues have been increasing more than 3 times year on year and we have had a great success. We know that huge growth brings a few complications and challenges to our technology and we, in engineering, are aware of them and we are looking to solve those. We are an e-commerce SaSS platform, a fintech startup, a logistics and shipping consolidator and we understand and believe that technology and business go hand-in-hand.

**Job Description**:
**What do we expect from you?**
- You will act as Lead Database Administrator and have experience in Aurora/ PostgreSQL/ MySQL RDS DB Administration.
- Troubleshoot database problems and implement corrective measures as required.
- You will play a lead role in helping us develop highly scalable and performant database systems.
- You must have a strong AWS working knowledge with Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL, Clusters/Global Databases - backups/snapshots, cloning and DMS.
- We will expect you to use your expert knowledge in Aurora/ PostgreSQL/ MySQL RDS internals including storage engines, specially InnoDB to optimize our database performance.
- Your expertise should include database upgrades, replication using DMS, recovery, DB migration, etc.
- You will need to have expertise in in MySQL/ PostgreSQL performance tuning and real-time troubleshooting.
- Experience managing high traffic, multi-tier products at scale specifically in ecommerce domains.
- Experience managing multi-tenant Aurora MySQL database and experience with scaling and optimizing databases.
- Strong knowledge of AWS managed services including RDS, KMS, DMS, Lambda functional and EKS

**How does your first month look like?**

Your first day will be kicking off with some analysis of the current situation. We expect this to take approximately a week of walkthrough and meetings while you also get to know more about the company and the products and meet people.

In the second week till the end of your month, you would be expected to have clarity on the current DB and DWH setup. You will review the DB component and review the running queries on the whole platform including the DB and DWH.

In your first month, you are expected to understand the DB setup components and how to manage and optimize the running queries besides that, you will be responsible for reviewing any coming database queries by the developers or DWH team to approve and confirm their quality in the context of the performance and the cost perspectives.

**How will you do it?**

You will be working side by side with the DevOps Team and Data Warehouse Team to ensure that you have the right guidance to your day-to-day tasks. This is critical to ensure your success And don’t forget your success is our success

**When will you work?**

We are a full flexible and full remote. It means that you decide when, however, it is important that you have your calendar updated. You will be working fully remote or if you are in Riyadh from our office here.

Ohh and yes, you will have 21 days of Holidays to enjoy and other benefits too

**Qualifications**:
**Hard skills**
- Over 9+ years of experience in Database Administration.
- 5+ years of experience in leading and organizational skills.
- Plan and manage capacity of database management systems.
- Experience of data warehouse system design, development, and testing.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of data warehouse and ETL.
- Strong knowledge of AWS managed services especially (RDS and DMS).
- Extensive Knowledge of MySQL/ PostgreSQL/ Aurora.
- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills.
- Experience in successful delivery of multiple products on time and with Quality.

**Soft Skills**
- Great communication skills
- Team player
- Attention to detail
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Smart working habits
- Ability to at point work under pressure (doesn’t happen often but sometimes we have deadlines)

Additional Information
**What are we offering?**
- Competitive Salary
- Holidays of 21 days + additional days given regularly
- Trainings (we kicked the learning internally and recently completed an AWS Architecting course)
- Career path clearly defined
- ZEA - Zid Entertainment - Fun Thursdays

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