Database Administrator Lisboa

Database Administrator
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

The Company

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of
- known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg. de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do “whatever makes them pink”.

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1, 700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N. V. is a
- traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Job Description

lastminute.com is looking for Database Administrator with certified experience for our Technology department.

On top of the responsibilities below, the Database Administrator will collaborate directly with software engineers, SREs, and Dev
Ops to pursue our vision of allowing engineers to use the right technology for the right use case while managing data safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response of company databases running on multiple environments, mainly based on My
  SQL, including other datastore technologies like Redis, Mongo
  DB, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Develop, implement, and maintain automation tools to manage and monitor diverse database technologies.
• Contribute to
  - service capabilities.
• Installation, configuration, monitoring, upgrading, and maintaining complex databases in production and
  - production environments.
• Collaborate with developers to define optimal datastore needs and support them in optimizing usage.
• Conduct root cause analysis of
  - related issues.
• Create, support, and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery practices, ensuring databases are recoverable from backups/snapshots.
• Manage tracking, alerting, and reporting of database servers.
• Be
  - call for production databases on a rotation basis.

Qualifications

• Strong experience and knowledge of AWS and related datastore services.
• Minimum 4 years of experience as DBA/DRE working with My
  SQL.
• Familiarity with Linux OS (specifically, Cent
  OS) and ability to use OS tools to investigate performance issues.
• Strong understanding of configuration management tools like Ansible and Ia
  C tools (Terraform) and their best practices.
• Knowledge of My
  SQL HA solutions (e. g. , Galera Cluster) and related traffic balancing methods.
• Working experience in an Agile environment is a plus.
• Experience working with product owners or product managers.
• Certifications in the
  - described fields.
• Good understanding of hybrid cloud architecture.
• Experience in the programming language Java.

Abilities/Qualities

• Proactive attitude with strong teamwork, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Leadership attitude and mental flexibility.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good spoken and written English.

Additional Information

What we offer

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive international environment.
• Grow through our career journey and internal mobility perspective.
• Manage your own schedule with flexible start and end times.
• Work a shorter working week (36h), including 4 hours on Friday morning.
• Get focus time for learning, development, and deep work on Friday mornings.
• Work partially or fully remote according to local laws.
• Enjoy continuous training via our company platform.
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel.
• Receive 2 days off per year for volunteering.
• Access a welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) with discounts from over 1500 partners.