Senior Database Administrator

#senior #удаленка Kraken Senior Database Administrator - Core Infrastructure Полная занятость Формат работы: удалённо (только из перечисленных стран: United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Romania, Cyprus, Switzerland, Portugal, Lithuania, South Africa, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, Bulgaria) ☑️ Чем предстоит заниматься -Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support continued global expansion and new product initiatives. -Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures. -Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows. -Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments. -Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns. -Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments. -Partner with service teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization. -Participate in our on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering. ☑️ Наши пожелания к кандидатам -5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting. -Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios. -Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar). -Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal). -Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals. -Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale). -Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows. -Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response. -Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs. -Nice to have: -Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs. -Strong scripting or programming ability (Python or Rust preferred) used to build automation and internal tools. -Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). -Exposure to multi-region or disaster-recovery designs. -Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.