Senior Database DevOps Engineer

Your
Role at HFM (Responsibilities):

As a Senior Database DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Lead the planning, management, and scaling of datastores to meet requirements.
  
• Protect databases through rigorous testing of backup and recovery processes and perform regular security audits.
  
• Use software and tooling to automate manual tasks, enabling engineers to innovate without risking data integrity.
  
• Conduct risk analysis to determine which database challenges to address and which to automate or optimize.
  
• Work closely with DevOps and team leaders to ensure high levels of standardization, reliability, testability, maintainability, and system availability.
  
• Educate and support developers, building necessary guardrails to empower them in their database management efforts.
  
• Lead initiatives to explore, assess and deploy novel technologies to modernize the DRE tech stack.
  

Requirements

What You Bring (Requirements):

• Strong knowledge of Python.
  
• Strong foundation in database design, implementation, and maintenance of SQL and NoSQL management systems.
  
• 5+ years of working experience.
  
• A knack for leading initiatives that evaluate and implement novel technologies to modernize the DRE stack.
  
• Ability to guide software engineers in optimizing database performance through query structuring and database engine fine -tuning.
  
• Experience with database automation tools such as Saltstack, Puppet, or Chef.
  
• Expertise in preventing database failures and handling failure recovery scenarios.
  
• Expertise with version control systems like Git.
  
• Ability to communicate technical concepts across teams effectively.
  
• Skilled in documenting and presenting best practices for data storage systems to internal and external teams.
  

Benefits

By joining us, you can expect:

• Hybrid Work Model (2 days working from home).
  

• Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance (from day one!)
  

• Friday afternoons off in Summer
  

• Birthday Leave
  

• Referral Bonus
  

Sounds
like you? Come and
write the next chapter with us!

All
applications will be treated as confidential.