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Database Administrator Job at Tana
Tana
Job Description
Tana is seeking a Database Administrator to support and optimize production database environments for a global leader in international mobile top-up. The role focuses on ensuring the performance, reliability, and availability of core systems operating high-volume, always-on systems across multiple cloud environments. Tana serves as a career launchpad for tech-savvy youth by creating global opportunities to earn and learn.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain SQL Server and MongoDB production databases
- Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of database systems
- Monitor systems and resolve performance or operational issues
- Support incident response and root cause analysis
- Participate in an on-call rotation for out-of-hours production support
- Optimize queries, indexing, and database configurations
- Support and maintain Kafka environments in production
- Collaborate with engineering teams on data infrastructure decisions
- Automate routine tasks using scripting (e.g., PowerShell, T-SQL, Bash) and improve monitoring and observability
- Manage database security and governance, including RBAC, encryption, auditing, patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation.
- Lead capacity planning and forecasting initiatives to support scalability, performance, and long-term operational reliability.
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