Senior Dba Specialist

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking a Senior DBA Specialist to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way. 

Why join Nortal 

• Say Goodbye to Micromanagement: We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. 

• Outcomes Over Hours: We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being. 

• Vibrant Community: Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities. 

• Support from Day One: Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth. 

Our benefits ✨ 

• Competitive USD salary. 

• 100% remote work: While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM. 

• Paid off & national holidays: Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary. 

• Sick leave: Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. 

• Annual credit: Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance. 

• Team-building activities: Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. 

• Birthday off: Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family. 

About the project  

As a Senior DBA Specialist, you will be the cornerstone of our data infrastructure, ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security for our enterprise database systems. You will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of complex database architectures, driving strategic decisions around cloud migrations, high-availability strategies, and disaster recovery protocols. Combining deep technical expertise with a proactive mindset, you will mentor junior engineers, collaborate closely with cross-functional development teams, and continuously modernize our data ecosystem to support scalable, business-critical applications.  

What you’ll do 

• Design, implement, and maintain high-availability database architectures to ensure maximum uptime and system resilience. 

• Optimize database performance through advanced query tuning, indexing strategies, partitioning, and system configuration. 

• Lead database migration projects, including moving on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments or hybrid setups. 

• Establish and enforce robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies across all production environments. 

• Monitor system health, capacity, and resource utilization proactively to anticipate future scaling requirements. 

• Implement strict security policies, access controls, and data encryption standards to ensure regulatory compliance. 

• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to review database schemas, optimize stored procedures, and streamline CI/CD pipelines. 

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database incidents, providing root-cause analysis and long-term remediation steps. 

• Automate routine administrative tasks, deployments, and maintenance processes using scripting or orchestration tools. 

• Mentor junior database engineers and define technical standards and best practices for the entire data engineering team.  

What makes you a great fit 🎯 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 

• Strong MySQL administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. 

• Experience working with AWS, especially RDS and DMS. 

• Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.  

Global Impact, Local Culture 🌍 

For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.  

We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives. 

Apply now and let’s shape the future of technology together! 🧑‍💻