We deliver technology to some of the best startups and companies in the world through diverse empowered teams of technologists that want to create change in the digital world.

We are a female-led organization that was created to be a safe place for all people from all areas of life. A place where teams are gender-balanced and compensated equally. And a place where careers are unrestrained regardless of cultural, educational, or geographical background.

We value people with strong technical skills that are collaborative, curious, results-driven, and take ownership. We embrace people that want to be themselves, have daily flexibility, grow, learn, and make a difference wherever the opportunity presents itself.

So we hope this sounds like you. Because we are always looking for exceptional Sr DBA Engineers to work in immersive client projects that will challenge your abilities. Ideally, we need you to have business level English language skills and:

Over 5 years of experience in database administration
Most important: Experience in AWS and RDS Aurora
Proven ability to manage database infrastructures in AWS (RDS & ec2)
Strong background knowledge of database technologies especially MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Dynamodb
Strong hands-on experience in optimization and tuning of database queries, and performance troubleshooting, mainly for MySQL and Postgres
Experience in design of CI/CD for SQL implementations
Experience in deployment and configuration of databases using Terraform/Ansible
Experience in DBMS configuration, upgrade, archiving and migration
Deep understanding of high availability and disaster recovery for storage solutions

Team collaboration, proactive ownership and follow-up skills

NICE TO HAVE

Experience with AWS DevOps services and technologies like IAM, AMIs, SNS, SQS, S3, EC2, EBS, VPC, EKS, Route 53 and security groups
PostgreSQL administration
Data lake and structures knowledge
MongoDB and general NoSQL knowledge
Data modeling best practices

A happy team makes a huge difference, that's why we provide:

Payment in USD or in your local currency
A truly flexible work schedule
Holiday and performance bonuses
An excellent paid time off policy
4 free Udemy courses a year
Home exercise & wellness membership
An opportunity for you to help create change in the industry
And more!

ATHENAWORKS is an inclusive safe organization that only considers your technical ability, work experience, ability to collaborate, your capacity to grow to the next level of your career, and ability to deliver great work. This means that we also embrace/welcome self-taught people as well! We will NEVER consider any other personal or professional aspects of your life. We hope that you choose to have a conversation with us today and find out what makes us different from any company that you have experienced.