Sr Database Administrator

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.  Come join the excellence!

Overview

Responsibilities

TNS is looking for a Database Administrator to be part of a team that maintains, enhances, and supports the databases and suite of TNS services for the TNS Payments Market. 

The TNS services are comprised of TNS and third party developed front-end and back-end applications focused on the transport and processing of financial transactions across the global TNS Payments environment, and the presentation of analytics related to those transactions to our internal and external customers.  The supported list of databases includes Postgres, AWS Aurora/RDS, Maria DB/MySQL and MS SQL

The ideal candidate will need to be self-motivated and eager to work in a team environment with responsibility for the design, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of database management systems.  Their main responsibilities will be

• Install, configure and maintain the performance of database servers

• Administer and monitor assigned databases

• Work alongside Architecture and Development teams to ensure product scalability, performance, high availability and adherence to database standards

• Performance tuning of database systems and optimizing database security

• Analyze and tune SQL statements

• Diagnose and troubleshoot database issues

• Manage backup and recovery processes including replication for failover environments and disaster recovery

• Perform necessary patching and updates to databases following strict change management procedures

• Recommend and implement emerging database technologies

• Create and manage database reports, visualizations, and dashboards

• Create documentation/knowledge base articles that can be used by tier one and tier two support engineers in response to routine incidents

• For this role, we anticipate paying $143,000k - $171,000K. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. TNS offers a competitive benefit package including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, paid holidays and vacations, and a 401K plan with company match.

• Be available for on-call support as needed

Qualifications

The Ideal candidate is required to have:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or equivalent technical experience
• At least 6 years of experience in administering Postgres, MariaDB/MySQL, MSSQL and AWS RDS/Aurora databases
• Experience in supporting and troubleshooting customer/operational issues
• Demonstrated experience handling sensitive data in compliance with GDPR/PCI requirements
• Extensive knowledge of Linux/Unix
• Capable of working under pressure with strict time schedule
• Reliable, dependable and available to support customers during off-hours
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good troubleshooting and investigative skills

Desired qualifications

• Java, JavaScript, SQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL
• Knowledge of Zabbix, Grafana, Splunk, LAMBDA
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as perl or python
• Familiarity with back-end and front-end programming languages
• Gitlab, JIRA, Ansible, Confluence
• Experience in the Payments/Transaction processing industry a plus

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.