DBA Team Lead

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a team of 3–4 DBAs; main escalation point.
• Own reliability, performance, and security of PostgreSQL/MySQL (AWS RDS/on-prem).
• Design and implement HA, failover, load balancing, backups, and DR.
• Oversee provisioning, upgrades, migrations, and performance optimization.
• Drive automation with Terraform (IaC) and Ansible for scalable infra.
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, and proactive capacity planning.
• Manage Linux DB hosts, tuning and security hardening.
• Collaborate with Eng, DevOps, Security, and Data on architecture.
• Maintain documentation and participate in on-call rotation.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on production PostgreSQL/MySQL experience (AWS RDS preferred).
• Proven experience leading or mentoring a tech team.
• Expertise in high availability, failover, load balancing, and DR design.
• Hands-on Terraform and Ansible experience.
• Strong Linux admin and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Ability to manage complex, high-load, mission-critical systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redshift, or MS SQL Server is a plus.
• Background in fintech/trading platforms is an advantage.

🎁 Benefits

• Work-Life Harmony: company cares about your life outside work.
• Generous Time Off: ample annual leave to recharge.
• Employee Referral Program: earn rewards for referring teammates.
• Health & Pension benefits: medical, pension, location perks.
• Workation: 30 extra remote work days worldwide (some restrictions).
• Volunteer Days: two paid days per year to volunteer.