DBA Engineer

Overview

At Lever

X we have delivered over 1,500+ projects for various clients. With 20+ years in the market and a team of 2,200+ professionals, we are looking for a DBA Engineer to join us.

• 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, employees stay with the company for 4+ years.
• Market‑based compensation and regular performance reviews.
• Internal expert communities and courses.
• Perks to support growth and well‑being.

The engineer will work closely with Dev Ops, 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.

• 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 Dev Ops engineers to integrate monitoring, alerting, backup automation, and operational dashboards.

• At least 2 years 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 Dev Ops, backend engineers, functional consultants, and project stakeholders.
• Nice‑to‑have:
  Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alert manager, Loki, or similar observability tools.
• Nice‑to‑have:
  Knowledge of Postgre
  
  SQL, Maria
  
  DB, or cloud‑managed databases.
• Nice‑to‑have:
  Familiarity with data migration, ETL, data validation, or reconciliation processes.

Submit a résumé and a brief cover letter to start the process.