What’s the job?
Gamer Choice is looking for an experienced DBA, DevOps Group, who has a broad knowledge and experience with various databases that will help to design and maintain Gamer Choice’s data and ensure its availability, scale and growth. You will join an innovative, high-performance team and work with cutting edge technologies, in a dynamic and agile environment.
Gamer Choice’s Tool Box: AWS, RDS-Aurora MySql and Postgres, MongoDB-Atlas, Cassandra, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Redis, Memcached, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, Chef, Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, NodeJS, Kotlin, Groovy.
Gamer Choice’s Data Stack: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, BigQuery, Redis and MemCached, both self-managed and their AWS counterparts.
Our work model is hybrid, combining remote and on-site work. This allows us to get things done when and where we are most productive.
What am I going to do?
- Design, improve and maintain Gamer Choice’s data infrastructure (Scale, Redundancy, Tuning, Backup, Setup, etc.)
- Develop and adopt new tools to improve and optimize database performance.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure services’ data efficiency and reliability.
- Maintain Gamer Choice’s availability by participating in DevOps on-call shifts.
What are the qualifications?
- 3+ years managing databases. Relational: MySql/MariaDB, Postgres. noSQL: MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis/Memcached, Cassandra.
- Understanding of core data structure and database concepts.
- Deep understanding in data modeling and design patterns for document databases
- Proved experience in monitoring, optimizing and problem solving of production grade databases
- Working in a Linux environment and writing scripts in Python/Bash
Advantages
- Big advantage – Deep understanding of caching strategies
- Production experience with Public Cloud & container orchestration systems
- Experience in AWS RDS/Aurora
- Experience in a data pipeline architecture
- Experience with event streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Knowledge of CI/CD
At Gamer Choice, we’re not about checklists. If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements for this role but still feel passionately about the position and think it’ll make your life more fulfilling, we want to hear from you.