Senior Database Administrator - Cape Town, South Africa - Impact

Impact

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Our Company:

If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world then this is the place for you.

If you have a desire to work in an organisation that is:

Passionate about its people
Focused on delivering the very best tech to our customers
Offering the flexibility to work how and where you are most successful
Obsessed with our customer's success
The leading SaaS platform to automate partnerships affiliate, influencer, technology partners, and more
Entrepreneurial in spirit with a culture that rewards collaboration and curiosity
Obsessed with making a difference in business and to the wider community

Impact is the global leader in Partnership Automation, working with innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levi's, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage their online affiliate, influencer, brand to brand, and content partnerships.

The Impact Partnership Cloud covers the full life partnership lifecycle including onboarding, tracking ads and paying partners, recruiting for new partners, data and marketing intelligence, and protection from fraud.

Founded in 2008, Impact has grown to over 500 employees and ten offices across Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia so there is plenty of opportunity for growth and advancement.

Your Role at Impact:

As a Senior Database Administrator at Impact, you will work with the latest technologies that enable near-real time processing of datasets in the Terabytes range and the exciting challenges that come with working with massive amounts of data.

You will have the freedom to experiment with the latest technologies with the ultimate goal of scaling our systems linearly.

If you have great ideas and like to think outside the box, we will encourage it and support you, giving you the tools to be successful as we scale Impact.

At Impact, your career path is yours to shape, as we encourage cross training into other technologies

What You'll Do:

Administer and support multiple MySQL database instances in a shared environment
Manage database capacity and usage. Proactive capacity planning.
Monitor and optimize database performance
Develop backup and recovery procedures
Essential Database administration install, configure, upgrade, backup, partitioning and monitoring of databases
Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and database risks

What You Have:

Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science or a related field
Minimum 5 years' experience as a Production Database Administrator
Experience with MySQL / Percona Server 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 / TokuDB
Experience with ProxySQL 2.x / Orchestrator, Percona XtraBackup
3+ years of experience in writing Linux shell scripts, perl scripts, Python etc.
Experience with High Availability MySQL/Percona environments
Experience working with Large Data Volumes 100's of Terabytes to Petabytes
Strong understanding of InnoDB and InnoDB tuning.
Experience working with SingleStore, MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Clickhouse, Percona XtraDB Cluster, CloudSpanner, CloudSQL, AWS RDS/Aurora
Experience with Puppet, Terraform

Nice to have:

Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits/Perks:

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Unlimited PTO policy

Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive worklife balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both

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Training & Development

Learning the advanced partnership automation products

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Medical Aid and Provident Fund

Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund

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Stock Options

3year vesting schedule pending Board approval

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Internet Allowance:

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Flexible work hours:

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Casual work environment

_Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. __We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetics, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or non-binary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know._