Cloud Database Administrator - Vice President
iCapital · Lisbon, PT
This role is responsible for owning the performance, reliability, security, and operation of the company’s SQL and NoSQL database platforms .
Job description
About the role This role is responsible for owning the performance, reliability, security, and operation of the company’s SQL and NoSQL database platforms . The role operates within a database team who partners with application engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure databases are scalable, resilient, secure, and observable across all environments. Responsibilities: Platform Performance & Scalability: Reliability, High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Own end‑to‑end performance of SQL and NoSQL databases across environments, including query optimization, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and tuning of database runtime parameters (e.g., PostgreSQL query plans, MongoDB indexes, DynamoDB access patterns). - Proactively prevent performance regressions through representative load testing, performance analysis tooling, and CI/CD validation gates. - Partner with application teams on schema design, data modeling, and workload‑driven performance improvements , including relational schemas, document models, and NoSQL access patterns . - Design, operate, and harden production‑grade SQL, NoSQL, and document database systems with strong replication, failover, backup/re...