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Cloud & Platform Database Administrator PT

VML · Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
103 days
VML's roles stay open a median of 103 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of VML's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at VML
high
582 stale, 8 reposted of 582 open
Hiring momentum
227 roles opened in the last 90 days
↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-11-14

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from VML's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for VML.

About this role

As a Cloud & Platform Database Administrator, you will operate, optimize, and secure both managed and self-managed databases for high-traffic ecommerce sites, primarily using AWS and GCP. Your responsibilities will include performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and automation of database changes, while collaborating with development and architecture teams. You will also participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and support migrations between different database environments.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of VML as an employer.

What you need

  • Hands-on production experience with managed relational databases in AWS or GCP (RDS/Aurora or Cloud SQL) using MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Experience administering at least one self-managed enterprise RDBMS in Linux/Unix environments (Oracle or IBM DB2 LUW)
  • Strong performance tuning skills: execution plans, indexing strategy, slow query analysis, concurrency and connection management
  • HA/DR expertise: replication, failover/runbooks, backups and point-in-time recovery; setting and meeting RTO/RPO
  • Automation mindset: Terraform/CloudFormation, Ansible, CI/CD for schema changes (Flyway/Liquibase), Git; scripting in Python/Bash
  • Security/compliance fundamentals: IAM, encryption in transit/at rest, auditing; familiarity with PCI-DSS and GDPR

Nice to have

  • Deep Oracle (RAC, Data Guard), DB2 HADR, or advanced PostgreSQL/MySQL internals
  • MongoDB Atlas and on-prem MongoDB (Ops Manager/backup, replica sets/sharding)
  • Redis/Memcached (ElastiCache/Memorystore), Kafka/Kinesis/Pub/Sub, or Kubernetes-based app stacks
  • Exposure to analytics platforms (BigQuery/Snowflake) for operational reporting
  • Experience migrating legacy estates to managed services with minimal downtime

What you get

  • Training opportunities
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Meal cards
  • Social events
  • Family friendly policies

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Participation in an on-call/out-of-hours rotation with appropriate compensation
  • Hybrid working model with regular time in the office

Summarised from VML's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by VML on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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