Senior Cloud Database Engineer Lisboa

Senior Cloud Database Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Date: 27 Nov 2024

Location: Lisbon, PT

Company: Miniclip

Job Description

Miniclip is looking for an experienced Database Administrator in Maria
DB/My
SQL to join our Cloud Engineering Team to be hired in our Lisbon (PT) Games Development Studio.

We are looking for someone who can maintain and extend the current infrastructure of Relational Databases while working closely with the rest of the Cloud Engineering team to improve the current architecture while driving upgrade efforts and the Product Teams to help meet requirements for new features.

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

This is a crucial role for the Miniclip business and your duties will include, but are not limited to the below:

Operational maintenance of our fleet of Relational Databases that support
- critical products.

Design and implement highly available, scalable database systems.

Implement monitoring solutions and decide on critical metrics to determine appropriate
- emptive actions to ensure systems availability and performance.

Design, implement and test backup and restore plans.

Design, implement and test compliance processes including Data Retention and GDPR.

Design, implement and test Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.

Design, implement and test query logging and database audit solutions.

Participate in an
- call rotation.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Data Engineer who like to bring new ideas to the role whilst having:

5+ years of experience managing and performing tuning on Maria
DB deployments with
- volume transactional count.

3+ years of experience with Managed and Unmanaged Maria
DB/My
SQL/Aurora deployments in AWS including services such as RDS, EC2, S3, VPC and Route 53.

Hands-on,
- depth experience with Inno
DB.

Proficiency with Linux system administration and OS tunning.

Able to deal with
- pressure incidents and recovery situations.

Highly analytical, results driven and
- solving mindset.

In-depth knowledge of procedures on how to do a multitude of operational work with zero downtime including cluster replacement, schema changes and engine upgrades.

The following skills are not essential, but we would love it if you have some exposure or experience with the belowl:

Formal experience on a Dev
Ops or Performance or SRE team.

Knowledge of other AWS services, such as Dynamo
DB, Aurora, EMR.

Knowledge of Chef automation and orchestration.

Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, AWS CDK, AWS Cloud
Formation.

Knowledge of Scripting Languages (e. g. , Perl / Python / Ruby).

Knowledge of Erlang or other functional programming languages.

About Miniclip

Miniclip is a global leader in games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 400 million monthly and 65 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 12 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 20 studios.

Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60
- quality mobile games globally.

To date, Miniclip's studios and companies have generated more than 10 billion downloads, including the following games: 8 Ball Pool™, Subway Surfers™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™, Carrom Pool™, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals ™, Pure Sniper ™, Puzzle Page™, Head Ball 2™, Motorsport Manager™, Darts of Fury™, Ultimate Golf™, Mini Football ™, Triple Match 3D ™, Agar. io™, and Power
Wash Simulator ™.

For more information, visit https://miniclip.com/