About us

We are Prometeo Talent and our main goal is to connect exceptional talent with the top exceptional companies. We have partnered with a company that provides a software platform powered by AWS. This platform can be easily customized to help various clients, including financial service providers, debt collection agencies, debt buyers, telecommunication companies, utility companies, and others, achieve better results when working with customers facing financial challenges. 

Our Proposal

We're seeking a Senior Database Engineer with a strong background in SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database management and administration. You will partner with product support, and DevOps CSM to keep databases secured, healthy and up to date to meet SLAs.

As part of the Database Operations Group, you will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and securing databases in the AWS Cloud. You'll need to have a solid understanding of RDS cluster, take snapshots of RDS instances, monitor database performance issues, and resolve them. 

Previous experience in Banking and Financial Services is preferred.

Your main responsibilities will be...

• Manage and optimize databases (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL).
• Ensure database security, backups, and performance tuning.
• Implement and deploy changes in production/QA environments.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database issues.
• Automate routine tasks and improve database processes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior DBAs.
• Collaborate with support teams and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) setups.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of IT industry experience.
  
• 10+ experience in database administration roles in MSSQL, MySQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Be available for on-call 24x7 support.
• Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments.
  
• Extensive experience with database technologies (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL).
  
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Extensive experience in HA/DR in major enterprise database systems.
• Experience in troubleshooting performance issues from infrastructure and database engine.
• Expert in writing PL/SQL and PostgreSQL performance tuning and optimization
• Advanced English proficiency. You will work with international teams from all over the world.
• Must have AWS and Aurora PostgreSQL database management and administration experience.

What do we offer?

• Working as a direct employee
• Vacations and national holidays 
• Health insurance
• Hybrid work: 3 days in the office in Santiago

Our values

• We foster trust
• Ownership is our guiding principle
• Collaboration
• Integrity
• Inclusivity
• Commitment to excellence