DBA Engineer

At LeverX, we have had the privilege of delivering over 1,500+ projects for various clients. With 20+ years in the market, our team of 2,200+ is strong, reliable, and always evolving: learning, growing, and striving for excellence.

We are looking for a DBA Engineer to join us. Let’s see if we are a good fit for each other! 

 what we offer:

• Projects in different domains: healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, fintech, etc.

• Projects for every taste: Startup products, enterprise solutions, research & development initiatives, and projects at the crossroads of SAP and the latest web technologies.

• Global clients based in Europe and the US, including Fortune 500 companies.

• Employment security: We hire for our team, not just a specific project. If your project ends, we will find you a new one.

• Healthy work atmosphere: On average, our employees stay with the company for 4+ years.

• Market-based compensation and regular performance reviews.

• Internal expert communities and courses.

• Perks to support your growth and well-being.

Project:

The engineer will work closely with DevOps, backend, ETL, and functional teams to design safe migration strategies, reduce production risks, improve observability, and build repeatable database operation practices.

The position offers the opportunity to influence migration architecture, define database standards, improve monitoring and backup processes, and become a key technical owner for database reliability in complex enterprise environments. 

REQUIREd skills:

• At least 2 years (or more!) of experience with MySQL, including major version upgrades and compatibility assessment.

• Experience in planning and executing production database migrations with clear rollback and validation strategies.

• Solid knowledge of replication, backups, restore procedures, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.

• Ability to analyze database schemas, stored procedures, triggers, views, users, grants, charsets, collations, and SQL modes.

• Experience with Linux-based database environments, shell scripting, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

• Understanding of high-availability, downtime minimization, RPO/RTO, and production change management.

• Good communication skills and ability to work with DevOps, backend engineers, functional consultants, and project stakeholders. 

• English B2+.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, or similar observability tools.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or cloud-managed databases.

• Familiarity with data migration, ETL, data validation, or reconciliation processes. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Run and analyze MySQL upgrade compatibility checks, identify blockers, and prepare remediation plans.

• Review database configuration, schemas, indexes, stored routines, replication setup, users, grants, and backup strategy.

• Design and support migration approaches such as logical dump/restore, staged upgrade, replica-based migration, or blue-green cutover.

• Prepare migration runbooks, validation checklists, rollback plans, and production cutover procedures.

• Support performance testing, query plan analysis, and post-migration tuning.

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to integrate monitoring, alerting, backup automation, and operational dashboards.