Senior Distributed DBA — Scale, Reliability, DevOps

Blip; Porto; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blip is a leading tech company building software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We seek a Senior Database Administrator to own the stability, scalability, and health of our distributed data platforms across multiple clustered technologies.

You will collaborate with Cloud, Security, and Engineering to keep data platforms reliable, compliant, and scalable as the business grows.

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on experience administering large-scale distributed database clusters in production environments.
• Experience with search/indexing platform operations, tuning, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational administration and ownership of distributed NoSQL database clusters and related platform technologies.
• Configure environments according to intended purpose, workload, and operational requirements — including sizing, capacity planning, high availability, replication, and resilience.
• Perform performance tuning, data retention and lifecycle management, and infrastructure scaling and growth planning.
• Plan, implement, and test disaster recovery and backup strategies, ensuring recovery procedures are documented and demonstrably effective.
• Maintain compliance with data retention, auditability, and operational governance requirements, including security hardening and access management.
• Proactively monitor platform health, improve alerting and observability, and lead incident investigation, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Support infrastructure provisioning, automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD integration across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead platform migrations, upgrades, and technology lifecycle management with minimal disruption to delivery teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on operational readiness reviews for new services, and support them with platform best practices.
• Define, maintain, and enforce operational standards across all environments, and share knowledge across the team to reduce key-person dependency risk.
• Participate in incident response and problem management, including post-incident analysis.

Skills

Distributed databases

NoSQL clusters

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps mindset

Infrastructure as Code

Backup and DR

Performance tuning

Monitoring/observability

Incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tooling

Job description

Blip is a leading tech company building software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We seek a Senior Database Administrator to own the stability, scalability, and health of our distributed data platforms across multiple clustered technologies.

You will collaborate with Cloud, Security, and Engineering to keep data platforms reliable, compliant, and scalable as the business grows.