Database Developer

Vivo Resources|Posted 1 month ago

Skills and experience

Role:Database administrator

Other roles:Cloud engineer, Site reliability engineer (SRE)

Experience in role:5+ years

Language proficiency:English

Must-have skills:

SQL

Python

Linux

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid

Location of job:Cape Town, South Africa

Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder, permanent resident or work permit/visa holder

Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa

Employment type:Contract

Role description

Join our SKA-Mid Site Reliability Engineering team as a Database & Platform Engineer with a DBA focus. You'll be responsible for designing, configuring, and operating a variety of databases.Your expertise will ensure optimal performance, availability, and reliability in distributed, containerised, and cloud environments. In this role, you'll leverage your database administration skills alongside platform and operations knowledge to enable deployment, scalability, and automation. You'll work with distributed parallel file systems and object storage, optimizing database configurations and coordinating with platform teams. Your responsibilities will include developing SQL queries, implementing backup and disaster recovery workflows, and contributing to CI/CD pipelines. We're looking for a professional with 5+ years of experience managing production database systems at scale. You should have strong SQL proficiency, experience with Python or PHP for database APIs, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerization. Join us to tackle exciting challenges in database management and contribute to the cutting-edge SKA-Mid Computing & Software team.

About Vivo Resources

1-15 employees

Supporting large science projects with technical engineering and software expertise

WHO WE ARE: We are a small team of engineers, technologists and academics with proven system engineering, project management and agile coaching experience spanning decades. Vivo Technical is a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified technical people who work with scientists, engineers and governments to bring results. Our expertise is at a programme level to orchestrate highly educated specialists with appropriate management tools and techniques.

WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre (one million square metres) of collecting area. The scale of the SKA represents a huge leap forward in both engineering and research & development towards building and delivering a unique instrument, with the construction phase just beginning. As one of the largest scientific endeavours in history, the SKA is bringing together a wealth of the world’s finest scientists, engineers and policy makers to bring the project to fruition.

WHY JOIN US:

You are interested in a life which entails more than working towards commercial goals: this project aims to research fundamental physics and answer some of humankind's deepest questions
You love a technical challenge
You love learning
Flexible hours (work from home)
Training in both technical and programmatic subjects
International working environment and travel opportunities