Database Administrator job at Wikimedia Foundation
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Vacancy title:
Database Administrator

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Wikimedia Foundation

Deadline of this Job:
18 October 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Database Administrator

You are responsible for:
• Operate and improve the RDBMS systems serving Wikimedia projects
• Respond to common database issues, following documented procedures
• Collaborate with SRE and other teams across the organization to ensure their specific database needs are met on an ongoing basis
• Perform day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia's public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools
• Monitor systems, services and service clusters, optimize performance and resource utilization
• Participate in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia's production infrastructure
• Share our values and work in accordance with them

Skills and Experience:
• 2+ years experience in a DBA role as part of a team
• 3+ years experience with Linux in a production environment
• Knowledge and experience of (Free and Open Source) RDBMS (preferably MariaDB or MySQL) administration (understanding of and experience with replication is essential) and support, debugging query performance and schema design
• Comfortable with shell and at least one of the scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Passion for automating tasks and processes
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:
• Experience working with or as a part of SRE/Operations/DevOps teams
• Experience with NoSQL products (Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/redis, MySQL) - MediaWiki familiarity would be great!
• Developing Free and Open Source software, or being part of an open-source community


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 18 October 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 05-10-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 05-10-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 05-10-2066
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