Associate DBA - Oracle

Who we are

Thompson Computer Services is a small IT shop: the owner, four technicians and a part-time office manager. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The role

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. DBA role covering on-premises and cloud databases, including a planned move to Amazon RDS. We need someone who checks the backups before anyone asks, and who can explain a query plan to a developer. Our headquarters is in Houston, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We hire in Poland through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

What you'll work on

• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams

About you

• 0-2 years of hands-on database administration experience
• Strong T-SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python

Bonus points

• MongoDB or Redis
• Terraform for database infrastructure
• Microsoft DP-300 or Oracle OCP certification

Perks and benefits

• Annual team retreat
• 20 days paid time off
• Co-working space stipend
• Home office setup budget

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thompson Computer Services.