Database Administrator

ABOUT THE COMPANY

OAG is a leading data platform for the global travel industry offering an industry-first single source for supply, demand, and pricing data.

We empower the global travel industry with high-quality, relevant datasets covering the whole journey from planning to customer experience.

Headquartered in the UK, with operations in the USA, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore, Japan, China, and Lithuania.

For more information visit www.oag.com

ABOUT THE TEAM

As part of OAG’s growing SRE Team, the Database Administrator / SQL DBA plays a crucial role in supporting and enhancing our rapidly evolving data platform. Our data warehouse and data systems are undergoing a ground-up transformation, experiencing explosive growth in both size and scope. You’ll join a team that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, and building resilient, high-performing data solutions.

Are you excited about working with a system which is crunching a billion data rows a day? Would you be happy to be able to play with a 200+ billion rows data warehouse with more than 16 years’ worth of data?

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Administering, managing, and optimizing MSSQL Server databases hosted in AWS EC2 and RDS.
• Ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability across a high-transaction environment.
• Performing capacity planning, monitoring, and proactive performance tuning.
• Setting up, maintaining, and monitoring SQL Server databases and high-availability solutions.
• Managing replication architectures and contributing to their operational reliability.
• Investigating performance issues, optimizing queries, and driving continuous improvements.
• Supporting and performing database migrations across different technologies.
• Collaborating with other teams and working with additional database systems such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and other modern data platforms.
• Documenting processes, improvements, and operational best practices to strengthen team knowledge.

IF YOU HAVE:

Personal Qualities

• A strong team-player mindset — we succeed together.
• Curiosity, self-motivation, and a drive to learn new technologies and practices.
• A proactive approach to identifying improvements and suggesting new solutions.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Extensive knowledge of database concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Experience with relational database design in high-availability, transactional environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Solid experience with database infrastructure and operations (preferably in a 24/7 mission-critical environment).

Expertise in

• Microsoft SQL Server administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Query optimization & performance investigations
• Capacity planning and monitoring
• Replication architecture and operational management
• Database migration between different technologies
• MSSQL or AWS Certifications (nice to have).

WE WILL OFFER YOU:

• Opportunity to work with passionate individuals at the intersection of technology and the global travel industry.
• Company-provided free lunch every day.
• A modern office in a convenient location, with flexible working arrangements that allow remote work or office attendance.
  
• An attractive compensation and benefits package, including private health insurance and company bonus scheme.
• Voluntary participation in a company-supported retirement scheme
• A generous annual leave policy that grows with each year of service, plus a day off during your birthday month.
• Great professional and personal development opportunities.
• Work remotely from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year.

Salary will be based on your qualifications, competencies, and experience (starting from 3300 EUR gross per month).

OAG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We ensure all applicants are considered for employment without discrimination.