.Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, we have put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and our performance, Merkle delivers holistic, experiences that promote growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit. Job Description This opportunity is specifically for Contract work of freelance to join of our projects in one of our clients, which is one big NGO. Main Tasks: Be an Engineer to implement high performance scalable databases that can fulfil business/solution needs, based on recommendations from Product Owner. Driven end-to-end availability, performance monitoring, and capacity planning for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB using native and 3rd party tools. Drive migration of many of those on open-source engines to containerization (either to OpenShift or Azure Kubernetes Services). Ensure Monitoring, Logging and Alerting is set up and integrated with monitoring tools according to the standard and our requirements. Be an expert to Identify query-language optimizations to deliver the best possible performance. Work with the Hybrid Cloud colleagues working on Core Infrastructure. Be a coach to support some of the colleagues in their technical knowledge. Practice sustainable response and support in the incident and request management. You will report to the Cloud Solutions Manager. Qualifications Required Profile: Bachelor's degree in Computing Engineer. Minimum 5 years' experience administering on-premises based multi-user environment with expertise in planning, designing, building, and implementing complex database systems. 5+ years' experience running production MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Extensive experience with monitoring, logging and alerting systems. Strong experience in Linux Administration (containerization would be highly appreciated). Strong team player able to share knowledge and to be autonomous when needed. Experience in database containerization (best practices, methodologies, migration…). Experience working with cloud providers (Azure) on RDBMS and NoSQL deployment. Experience in infrastructure automation/provisioning tools (PowerShell/Ansible playbook). Experience using Microsoft TFS, particularly the management of PBI. Experience with Elastic Search and/or Splunk would be a plus
