**About us**:
**Antelope Consulting is an IT consultancy and outsourcing firm based in the UK**.
It has been providing **IT and database solutions** since 2004 predominantly in the financial marketplace.
Put simply, Antelope Consulting can piece together all the elements for you.
By using its **significant experience in this area**, we can significantly de-risk your project, along with providing guarantees of performance, stability, and scalability that few companies can provide.
**Our proposal**:
We are looking for a **Senior Database Administrator (MySQL & PostgreSQL)** to work in an international environment with **people from all over the globe**.
We invite you to join this **diverse and hard-working team** in the task of building and significantly improving the **most demanding online gambling platforms**.
**Your everyda**:
- Design, deploy and support high available and scalable distributed MySQL & PostgreSQL databases for high-volume transactions.
- Ensure the performance, security, and availability of 24x7 mission-critical databases in a mixture of containerized and non-containerized environments.
- Cross Data Centre Replication
- Configuration Management using Puppet, Ansible and Terraform.
- Automation using Shell, Python, and configuration management.
- Database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, and deployments, among others.
- Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary.
- Ensure Change management process is followed
- Collaborate with other team members and business stakeholders
- Maintain and develop data models, structures, and procedures to ensure the integrity of all database components.
- Prepare crystal clear documentation and specifications including database design and coding standards.
**It could be a perfect match if you have**:
- Excellent **English** verbal and written communication skills
- **5+ years** of overall IT experience, with **4+ years** of relevant experience in MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Strong **Linux** Administration Skills
- Scripting languages like **Shell, Python, or Ruby**:
- Config management tools like **Puppet, Terraform and Ansible** etc.
- Experience with **optimization and performance tuning**:
- Extremely organized with strong attention to detail
**It would be a plus**:
- Knowledge of other Database technologies (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Mongo DB,
SQLServer, Oracle)
- Docker Containers and Kubernetes
- Cloud migration and management
- Code versioning tools like GIT and SVN
- Knowledge of nix tuning would be helpful
- Experience on Monitoring tools like Icinga, Grafana and Prometheus.
- Proficiency in database management duties
- Up to date knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices
- Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications
- Previous Training or Certifications would be a plus
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent education
**What do we offer?
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- Diverse and international team
- Fantastic opportunity for self-development, progress, and learning new technologies
- Top market salaries in USD
- Training
- Flexible working hours
- 100% remote position