Takealot Vacancies Cape Town – MySQL/Postgres DBA

Job Description:

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Database Administrator to join our team.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

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Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor and optimise database performance
• Manage database capacity and usage, and able to highlight trends and future requirements
• Develop backup and recovery procedures
• Develop, manage and improve high-availability solutions including Disaster Recovery
• Develop and support multiple MySQL and Postgres database instances, including cloud based solutions
• Work with team mates to improve processes and standards
• Develop and support database replication
• Be on-call for after-hours support as part of rotation in team
• Support the creation and maintenance of development and test database environments
• Management of database script review, improvement and approval process

Job Requirements:

• Forward thinking with the ability to be innovative and drive initiatives
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree (with a major in a quantitative subject), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g. in e-commerce, consulting, engineering).
• Experience in Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Storage, Security)
• Experience with open source relational database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Demonstrated experience with relational database physical design
• Bachelor’s degree, with a major in a quantitative subject and a minimum of 3 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g. in e-commerce, consulting, engineering) is required.
• Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
• Solid understanding of virtualization, cloud computing, containers (GCP/AWS preferably)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, OpsGenie, and Percona will be beneficial
• A thorough understanding of database principles
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Lambda/Kappa architectures will be beneficial
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing
• Able to function with minimal supervision, drive own initiatives
• CloudSQL/RDS will be beneficial
• Solid quantitative skills
• Practical experience working with other database systems like BigQuery, Redis and ElasticSearch will be beneficial
• Ability to interview and interact professionally with internal and external people

Job Details:

Company: Takealot

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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