We need
DBA Tech lead
- Databases
- 5+ years
- Remote
United Company Wildberries and Russ is an international technology company formed by the merger of two market leaders – IT company Wildberries and outdoor advertising operator Russ. We are now actively expanding our infrastructure and looking for a Tech Lead DBA.
Your responsibilities will include
- Developing a long-term strategy for the development of DB infrastructure and automation tools, defining the technology stack, and aligning it with the business strategy;
- Participating in the development of DBaaS / Self-Service platforms;
- Managing DBA and DevOps teams: resource allocation, workload planning, employee development;
- Forming and controlling the budget for IT infrastructure (capacity, licenses); justifying investments to management;
- Prioritizing automation and operational tasks, monitoring deadlines, quality, and economic efficiency;
- Approving architectural solutions and standards; participating in critical incidents (escalation);
- Monitoring SLA, developing and testing DRP, conducting drills;
- Cost optimization: ROI, license analysis, review of architectural patterns, automation of manual operations;
- Gathering requirements from the business, demonstrating potential, and agreeing on priorities;
- Integration with the overall IT landscape, participation in the architectural committee;
- Working with vendors: selection, evaluation, contracts, quality control;
- Competency development: onboarding, training, technical mentoring, conferences;
- Reporting to management on performance, incidents, economic benefits, and plans.
We expect from you
- Expertise in the architecture of relational/non-relational DBMS and message brokers: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka;
- Experience in administering a large infrastructure (thousands of clusters) of DBMS and message brokers with an SLA of 99.9% or higher;
- Expert-level proficiency in Python/Bash, IaC (Ansible, Terraform), GitOps (GitLab CI/CD);
- Deep experience with Docker, Kubernetes, including operators for DBMS and message brokers;
- Implemented DBaaS projects based on a cloud service model;
- Implementation of the Pull model for managing service configurations;
- Experience in building monitoring and incident response systems: Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, SLA/SLO, MTTR;
- Budgeting: ROI, management of license costs;
- Knowledge of information security standards (GDPR, 152-FZ) and understanding of principles for building secure infrastructure at all levels: network, encryption, access (RBAC), audit;
- Experience in building DRP and conducting drills;
- Personnel management: KPI, Performance Review, motivation, conflict resolution;
- Project management: Scrum/Kanban, planning, effort estimation, risks.
What we offer
- Training and development: language clubs, our own corporate university, management skills development programs, and much more;
- Employee well-being: corporate medical insurance package with dental care, corporate sports, psychological consultations, and additional benefits of an accredited IT company;
- Numerous communities: speaker club, football, yoga, chess, etc.;
- Care for families: we create conditions that make it easy to combine career and caring for loved ones – from a flexible approach to large-scale projects for employees' children;
- Discounts and partner programs: on education, insurance, purchases, and much more;
- Comfortable work environment: free meals in the office, modern offices near metro stations, corporate equipment, and an employee portal.
