About the Position

Database Administrator

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

About Us

Amach is an industry-leading technology-driven company with headquarters in Dublin and remote teams across the UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, we specialize in solving aviation complexity issues by modernizing operating models using cloud, data, and AI. Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reducing costs, and increasing customer experience and satisfaction.

We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator to be embedded with our customer. You will work closely with their teams to support and optimize a diverse, multi-platform database estate. This hands-on role involves database performance tuning, architecture review, reliability engineering, and proactive monitoring across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle environments running on cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud) and on-premises infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Support and assess the customer's diverse database estate across multiple platforms (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle) in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing expert guidance on platform-specific best practices.
Analyze and optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategy review, execution plan analysis, and session management to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
Design, review, and validate database environments for scalability, availability, resilience, and capacity planning, including configuration assessment and resource utilization analysis.
Establish and oversee backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies including replication, failover mechanisms, and recovery testing to ensure the customer's recovery objectives are achievable and validated.
Implement comprehensive database monitoring and observability solutions, proactively investigating trends, identifying risks, and driving improvements to overall platform health.
Work collaboratively with the customer's technical teams to troubleshoot issues, provide root cause analysis, and recommend practical solutions.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives based on data-driven insights and industry best practices to enhance database reliability and performance.

Requirements

Strong working knowledge of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle across both cloud and on-premises environments including AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and traditional datacenters.
Solid understanding of query tuning, indexing strategies, execution plans, session management, and database performance analysis.
Demonstrated experience designing and reviewing database environments for scalability, availability, resilience, and capacity planning.
Good understanding of backup and restore strategies, high availability solutions, replication, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery approaches.
Proven experience with database monitoring, observability, and proactive problem management with a naturally curious and data-driven mindset.

Nice to Have

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for database deployment and configuration management.
Familiarity with database security hardening, compliance frameworks, and access control management.

We Offer

An opportunity to join a fast-growing company.
Options for career advancement.
Learning and development opportunities.
Flexible working environment.
Competitive salaries based on experience.

About the Company

Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.

If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!

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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.

Your Personal Data

Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

Used lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent way.
Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
Accurate and kept up to date.
Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
Kept securely.

If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]

Database Administrator

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