Database Administrator - 25032002 in Bucuresti

Our client is a leading innovator at the crossroads of eCommerce and eProcurement, transforming how B2B buyers and suppliers connect, automate, and scale their operations. Their purpose-built solution integrates with every leading eCommerce and eProcurement/ERP system to help suppliers and buyers seamlessly automate and accelerate their mission-critical transactions. As a Database Administrator , you will be responsible for optimizing, securing, monitoring, and maintaining our database infrastructure to enable and support enterprise-class SaaS infrastructure.  The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database administration, performance tuning, security, and cloud database technologies, with a keen ability to enhance our data architecture for scalability and efficiency.  With an emphasis on reliability, quality, security, efficiency, and automation, the solutions you deliver and enable will directly contribute to customer success and help drive TradeCentric’s next phase of growth. Report To: Sr. Director of Architecture Work Location : Bucharest, Romania (hybrid schedule) Schedule: Monday to Friday Hours: 9am to 6pm EET What You'll Do: Database Administration & Optimization: Maintain and optimize database performance, ensuring high security, availability, and scalability. Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce database security and integrity best practices, access controls, and compliance policies such as GDPR and PCI-DSS. Backup & Disaster Recovery: Develop, test, and maintain backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for business continuity. Monitoring & Performance Tuning: Set up and manage database monitoring tools, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks. Query Optimization: Proactively analyze and optimize queries to enhance performance and reduce system load and collaborate. Cloud Database Migration: Research, plan, and execute cloud database migrations between leading platforms including Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL. Automation & Scripting: Develop automation scripts for database maintenance, monitoring, and infrastructure provisioning. Database Architecture Contribution: Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable, efficient, and well-structured databases, and to optimize query and transaction processing. Data Pipeline Support: Guide and support development of data pipelines and ETL processes. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with developers, DevOps engineers, and product teams to align database strategies with business needs. Who You Are: Easy to work with: An effective communicator, positive team player, and natural collaborator. Experience: 7-9 years of database administration experience in a SaaS environment. Bachelor’s Degree: Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is strongly preferred. Database Expertise : MariaDB on Amazon RDS and/or Google Cloud SQL, and ElasticSearch. Security & Compliance: Deep understanding and application of database security best practices, encryption, access control, and compliance requirements including GDPR. Backup & Recovery: Experience implementing reliable backup, restore, and disaster recovery. Performance Tuning: Proven track record of optimizing complex queries, indexing strategies, and caching mechanisms. Architecture: Ability to assist in the design of scalable and efficient database schemas. Monitoring: Experience in establishing database monitoring tools and processes. Automation: Experience in automation and infrastructure scripting using Python, Bash, or Terraform. Data Pipeline: Experience supporting or working with data pipeline architectures. DevOps Collaboration: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).