Davidson’s Infrastructure Unit is looking for a database specialist to support its full range of internal and customer projects. This will involve work not only on “traditional” databases but also on next-generation architectures. In fact, one of your primary duties right now will be to migrate the former to the latter.

Your daily tasks will include: :

Researching and analysing DBMS requirements
Architecture proposals (initial design or future developments): cloud and/or on-premise
Analysing operability issues
Specifying housekeeping tasks: alarms, scheduling, backups
Specifying and implementing tools for standardising, automating and securing production
Scheduling and monitoring project phases
Integrating new servers / databases
Analysing and managing operational incidents, performing data recovery or rollbacks and handling maintenance operations
Producing lessons-learned documents and procedures (operations, incidents, etc.)
Implementing and tracking performance indicators
Day-to-day platform monitoring
Migrations of DBMS versions
Technical support for users (developers, end customers)

Skills (pre-existing or to be acquired)

You will have a postgraduate degree and some initial successful experience in database architecture and operation
And, obviously, some of the following skills: SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Perl, Shell, Linux

Talents/soft skills

Analytical ability
Curious