Open-Source Database Administrator

About Akkodis:

Akkodis is a global digital engineering consulting company that enables companies to advance in their digital transformation. Our 50,000 tech experts across 30 countries combine best-in-class technologies and cross industry knowledge to drive purposeful innovation for a more sustainable tomorrow.

We have over 20 years of experience in Bulgaria delivering cutting-edge solutions in the IT, Software, Cloud, and Digital fields. Now, we are looking for an Open-Source Database Administrator to join our team!

Position Highlights:

The Open-Source Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting, maintaining, and optimizing open-source database platforms for customers across cloud and on-prem environments. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, performance, security, observability, and operational excellence for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB workloads. The DBA must be experienced in monitoring and metric-driven operations and work closely with Development and DevOps teams to ensure databases are reliable endpoints in application lifecycles.

Main responsibilities:

Database Administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)

Perform L2/L3 support for production and non-production open-source database platforms.

Install, configure, upgrade, and patch MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB clusters.

Manage replication, clustering, HA, and failover architectures (e.g., MySQL Replication, Group Replication, PostgreSQL Streaming Replication, MongoDB Replica Sets).

Handle performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies.

Perform capacity planning, storage optimization, and scaling analysis.

Troubleshoot database errors, performance issues, or incidents to minimize downtime.

Monitoring, Metrics & Observability

Design and implement advanced monitoring for open-source databases using: Prometheus / Grafana; CloudWatch / Azure Monitor; ELK / OpenSearch

Build and maintain dashboards for health, performance, latency, and replication status.

Configure alerting rules, SLOs, and performance indicators for proactive issue detection.

Automate log analysis and anomaly detection.

Collaboration With Development & DevOps Teams

Work with Dev and DevOps engineers to ensure DB endpoints meet application and microservice requirements.

Support database integration into CI/CD pipelines.

Review schema designs, SQL queries, and application-level data flows.

Cloud & Platform Experience

At least one major cloud required (AWS or Azure)

Provisioning and maintaining DB instances on AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure Database services, or IaaS deployments.

Implementing backup/restore strategies using cloud-native tools.

Understanding networking, IAM roles, security groups, firewalls, and data encryption in cloud environments.

Automation & Scripting

Develop automation for DB maintenance tasks using:Bash/Python/Ansible / Terraform

Create automated backup, recovery, and DR workflows.

Build self-service operational scripts for common DBA tasks.

Security & Compliance

Implement role-based access, auditing, and encryption at rest/in transit.

Main requirements:

Min 5+ years experience as an Open-Source DBA.

Strong hands-on experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

Experience in HA, replication, and performance optimization.

Experience with database monitoring and metrics tooling.

Experience supporting databases as endpoints for Dev / DevOps environments.

Designing and managing monitoring stacks:Prometheus, Grafana; ELK / OpenSearch;CloudWatch / Azure Monitor

Expertise in at least one major cloud: AWS or Azure

Scripting with Python & Bash

Automation using Ansible, Terraform

Supporting databases in CI/CD pipeline

Kubernetes experience: StatefulSets, Operators, Storage Classes

Strong problem-solving, incident management, and analytical skills.

Bachelor degree in Computer science or similar

AWS certification is preferred.

What we offer:

• Competitive remuneration package

• Referral bonus program

• 24 days annual paid leave

• Additional health insurance (outpatient & hospital medical care, dental care, coverage of dioptric glasses, and more)

• Free Psychological Counselling via Green Line and on the spot

• Newborn or newly adopted child bonus

• Food vouchers – 76.70 EUR/month

• Upskilling & reskilling training programs and e-learning hub

• Recognition awards

• Sports cards (partially covered by the employer) and company sports initiatives

• Special company discounts

• Various social and charity initiatives

United by our passion for talent and technology, we look at the world differently.

The future won’t wait, it’s time to make incredible happen. Are you ready?