Onsite Lisbon DBA — Build Scalable, Secure Databases

Air Apps; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apple hardware ecosystem for work.

Annual Bonus

Top-tier Health and Life Insurance

Transportation Budget

Coverflex benefits package

Childcare support

Air Conference

Pension Fund

Urban Sports Club membership

Meals 100% free at the hub

Job summary

Air Apps is hiring a Database Administrator (DBA) to design, implement, and maintain high-performance, scalable databases powering our AI-driven platform. You will work with engineering teams to optimize schemas, queries, and data models while ensuring data integrity and security.

This is an onsite role at our Lisbon office, with relocation support available. You will manage backups, DR, and cloud database services, collaborating with DevOps to integrate databases into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a Database Administrator or similar role.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of backup, recovery, and DR strategies.
• Experience with cloud database services (AWS RDS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Automation scripting with Python/Bash/SQL scripts.
• Understanding of GDPR and data governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance databases.
• Optimize queries, indexing, and partitioning for large-scale apps.
• Monitor health, availability, and disaster recovery processes.
• Manage multi-model databases (SQL & NoSQL).
• Implement security policies, encryption, and access controls.
• Automate backups, replication, and failover; collaborate with DevOps.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Database performance tuning

Data security

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

Cassandra

DynamoDB

SQL Server

AWS RDS

Azure SQL

Job description

Air Apps is hiring a Database Administrator (DBA) to design, implement, and maintain high-performance, scalable databases powering our AI-driven platform. You will work with engineering teams to optimize schemas, queries, and data models while ensuring data integrity and security.

This is an onsite role at our Lisbon office, with relocation support available. You will manage backups, DR, and cloud database services, collaborating with DevOps to integrate databases into CI/CD pipelines.