Senior Database Reliability Administrator

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• Administrateur/Administratrice senior, fiabilité des bases de données

About AppDirect

Become a digital, global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world.  AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product, through any channel, on any device - as a service.  We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations.  We do this by our values-driven culture—one that enables you to Be Seen, Be Yourself, and Do Your Best Work.

About You

We're looking for a skilled and ambitious Senior Database Reliability Administrator to join our Data Engineering team. You're a highly technical professional with an entrepreneurial spirit and a data-as-a-service mindset. You thrive on efficiency, automation (including AI-driven approaches), and continuous learning—and you want your work to make a meaningful impact.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team building at the intersection of highly scalable, fault-tolerant data services and AI, helping shape the future of AppDirect's data platform. As a Senior Database Reliability Administrator, you'll take on complex technical challenges and play a key role in evolving our modern, cloud-native data environment. This is your chance to drive innovation, improve scalability, and deliver real impact across our platform.

What you'll do and how you'll have an impact

• Lead large-scale database migration projects driven by company acquisitions and rapid growth;
• Design and execute deployment strategies for blue/green rollouts, data archiving, and partitioning;
• Build and optimize vector database infrastructure to power and semantic search capabilities;
• Use AI-powered automation to strengthen our data platform across key pillars:
  • Operational excellence
  • Security & compliance
  • Performance & scalability
  • Resiliency & capacity planning
• Enhance database security and governance through least-privilege access, auditing, and streamlined access controls;
• Guide engineers in delivering fit-for-purpose database solutions across relational, key-value, and document models;
• Build self-healing, automated systems that improve observability, alerting, and operational efficiency;
• Research innovative solutions, run proof-of-concepts, and implement best practices;
• Maintain a strong culture of documentation by developing and sharing high-quality knowledge resources;
• Deliver robust, automated solutions using CI/CD pipelines.

What we're looking for

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL;
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with NoSQL, one of :MongoDB, Redis or ElasticSearch;
• 2+ years of experience with AWS cloud services;
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with a primary focus on Terraform;
• Strong understanding of SQL performance tuning and experience working with large datasets;
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development and productivity tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to improve efficiency, automation, and code quality;
• Exposure to vector databases such as Pinecone is a plus;
• Practical knowledge of containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes);
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, Python, or Ansible);
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities;
• Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical topics to peers and non-technical stakeholders;
• Experience working in a distributed team is an asset;
• Familiarity with SQL Server and Microsoft Azure or AWS Aurora Serverless is a plus.

At AppDirect, we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence, experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

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