Database Administrator Senior

Job Title: Database Administrator Senior

Work Location: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142

Job Description:

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Database Administrator Senior. Perform database engineering duties in furtherance of support, configuration, and troubleshooting of multi-node database systems to achieve optimal application performance, stability and availability; work closely with database and application architects, cloud and security engineers and developers and testers; support day-to-day operations with large scale, highly available, reliable, high performing transactional databases, hosted in multiple data-centers; provide expertise with performing database operations with minimum (or zero) downtime for Cassandra, Oracle, Postgres and other database technologies; collaborate with operations, architecture, development and QA teams to solve database related problems; automate routine database operations using scripting or cloud automation tools; support large, highly-available, geographically distributed transactional systems. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the United States. [AG0566]

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Required Qualification:

Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or Computer Engineering, plus 3 years of experience in the job offered or closely related databased administration role. Alternatively, will accept Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or Computer Engineering and 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or closely related database administration role.

Must Have: At least 3 years of experience in the following skills: Cassandra, GCP, performance tuning, build and upgrade of clusters, data modeling, data configuration, data administration, data monitoring, security management, replication, backup/restore.