Database Administrator (DBA)

at  OnBuy

WHO ARE ONBUY?

OnBuy are an online marketplace who are on a mission of being the best choice for every customer, everywhere.
We have recently been named one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 for the third year in a row (as well as ‘Fastest-Growing Tech Business in the South West’).
All achievements we are very proud of, but we don’t let that go to our head. We are all laser focused on our mission and understand the huge joint effort ahead of us needed to succeed.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Essential

• Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu, PowerShell, bash Windows
• Databases: MySQL, Percona, Couchbase, NoSQL concepts
• Languages: Shell T-SQL, PL/SQL
• GCP experience, Cloud SQL

Desirable

• Web application specific experience, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Spanner

• Design databases with Capacity Management consideration and incremental load
• Maintaining and monitoring database solutions
• Performance tuning: indexing, partitioning & load balancing
• Develop and practice disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity
• Troubleshoot database performance issues and architect solutions with development teams
• Help ensure security and compliance across all database systems
• Execute database upgrades
• Manage database ACLs
• Automate as much as possible
• Analyse and determine informational needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, proposed manipulation, data flow and storage requirements, data output and reporting capabilities for complex databases. Recommends and implements course of action based on analyses
• Defines logical attributes and inter-relationships and designs complex data structures to accommodate database production, storage, maintenance, and accessibility to enhance performance