Junior Database Administrator

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As a Database Administrator, you will play a key role in looking after the entire database landscape at Takeaway and manage both relational (primarily MySQL but also Postgres and SQL Server) and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases in various flavors across our tech stack.

Every order placed globally goes through our architecture and we are therefore responsible for ensuring the availability, scalability, and maintenance of it for the various services that connect to it.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Provisioning MySQL and/or Postgres databases
• Optimization, security, maintenance, and general upkeep of databases
• Preparing and updating documentation and specifications
• Handling common database procedures, such as upgrades, recovery operations, migrations, etc.
• Profiling server resource usage across schemas, optimizing and tweaking as necessary
• Collaboration with other team members and stakeholders
• Proposing database usage strategies to developer teams
• Setting up monitoring and alerting tools as required

What will you bring to the team?

• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL and RDS
• Experience with MySQL replication - file based or GTID
• Comfortable working in cloud environments such as AWS
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements
• Experience in IaC such as Terraform or Pulumi targeting AWS
• Ability to plan resource requirements from high-level specifications
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc. is definitely a plus
• Experience with online database migrations in high availability/zero downtime environments

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.