Database Administrator III

About Kueski

Founded in 2012 with the mission to improve the financial lives of people in Mexico Kueski is the leading buy now pay later (BNPL) and online consumer credit platform in Latin America known for its innovative financial services. Its flagship product Kueski Pay allows customers to make purchases and pay later both online and in physical stores and has become the payment choice for a quarter of Mexico's leading e-commerce merchants. Notably it stands out as the first buy now pay later (BNPL) option accessible to Mexican consumers on Amazon.com.mx .

Kueski is frequently recognized for its strong diverse and inclusive company culture. In 2022 Kueski was named one of the most ethical companies in Mexico by AMITAI and one of the best companies for both young professionals and female talent in Mexico by EFY. The company has also been named to CB Insights’ Fintech 250 list.

Purpose

As a Database Administrator who is responsible for the integrity of the company’s databases. Including but not limited to upgrades updates patches migrations troubleshooting and performance monitoring present information and respond to questions from different business areas. The DBA collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure security compliance and performance optimizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage support and maintain database technology and infrastructure

• Design Kueski’s best practices architectural guidelines and policies regarding databases

• Training eligible staffs on how to access and apply the database

• Database modeling and designing database schemas

• Develop and design stored procedures routines tables and triggers.

• Query tuning

• Work with developers product managers and other team members to review the business requirements and translate them into database objects.

• Creation of data and performance reports to support  Kueski’s operational needs.

• Implementation of databases storage structures high-availability solutions replication and disaster recovery solutions.

• Identity and access management

• Deal with constant optimization

• Monitor deadlocks and concurrency issues

• Help with changes and implement a version control system of the database

• Interact with Platform on maintenance and upgrades

• Implement release management for the DB

• Provide reviewing capabilities for PRs related to DB usage

• Design and implement DRP procedures

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

• 3+ years of DBA experience implementing managing and administering enterprise databases

• 3+ years of DBA experience engineering administering and managing Postgres databases

• 3+ years of experience managing relational databases on cloud platforms (AWS)

• Required experience administering Amazon RDS service:

• PostgreSQL

• MySQL

• MariaDB

• Experience supporting ETL and ETL processes

• Experience with AWS cloud monitoring and alerting technologies such as Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail

• Good understanding of storage architecture design techniques theories principles and practices

• Demonstrated experience scaling database architectures considering high availability performance and data availability requirements.

• Experience designing testing and executing Disaster Recovery Plans and Business Continuity Plans.

• Evaluate each manual operation in the delivery pipeline for potential automation.

• Experience automating tasks with configuration management or provisioning tools (Ansible CloudFormation Terraform etc.)

• Experience with scripting languages

• Experience with data governance principles practices and frameworks.

• Spanish conversational

• English conversational

• Experience with AWS services (at least AWS RDS Elastic Compute S3 IAM).

You’ll love working at Kueski because:

• We have a mission-driven culture focused on customer value teamwork humility  and integrity.

• Everyone is expected to have role clarity career growth and a personal development plan. Feedback and recognition  is embedded in our company processes systems and practices.

• We ensure competitive salary medical insurance and wellbeing through ample and flexible time off as well as mental healthcare benefits. Everyone is an owner and eligible for competitive stock options with a company poised for success.

• We´re committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and we know this leads to incredible work.

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