Aera Technology is a pioneer in the growing category of Decision Intelligence – the technology to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making processes with AI and machine learning. Through our AI decision automation platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, we are helping the best-known brands in the world make smarter, faster decisions.

Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable.

The primary responsibilities for this role will be defining and executing our cloud database strategy. You will be responsible for developing database automation, and designing complex replication networks interfacing with data pipelines to move data between disparate applications to support our Data Engineering and Data Science teams.

The appropriate candidate for this role must be based in Mexico and be comfortable working remotely.

Responsibilities

Work on a team of highly technical and talented database engineers responsible for maintaining the global database systems for Enterprise Engineering
Build, scale, and administer Data Warehouse, RDBMS, NoSQL and Graph database infrastructure with a focus on the performance, availability and growth needs of the company.
Improve and optimize database administration and management with coding and automation
Support day-to-day operations and escalations of the database systems
Contribute to meeting KPIs and SLAs through management of task queues
Support large-scale global disaster recovery exercises while working closely with other infrastructure, production and business teams at Aera
Build an ecosystem supported by full-coverage automation with a bias towards build vs. buy and self-service as a primary objective
Troubleshooting, fault-isolation and communication across the infrastructure, applications and business teams

About You

5+ years experience administering MySQL, Cassandra DB, Oracle, Hana, Hadoop, or other relational, data warehouse or No-SQL database covering designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in a production environment.
3+ years’ experience of data warehouse administration on AWS and/or Azure
2+ years’ experience with modern distributed container cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Docker)

Nice to Have

Experience administering RDBMS (Oracle, MSSQL), Analytical DBs (Exasol, Hana, Redshift, Postgres), GraphDB (Neo4j, AWS Neptune) covering designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in a production environment
Experience building, securing and automating enterprise scale infrastructure and systems
Experience with the use of Data Loss Prevention, Encryption/Tokenization, Database Activity Monitoring technologies
Experience with continuous integration tools such as: Jenkins, Liquidbase, Flyway, etc. a BIG plus.
Exasol (data warehouse) experience is also highly desired

Benefits Summary

We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package for employees in Mexico, which includes both statutory entitlements and additional perks from Aera and our local partner, Incoraxis.

Benefits Required by Law:

IMSS – Government-backed health insurance
INFONAVIT – Housing credit access
Paid Vacation – While the law mandates 6 vacation days after the first year, Aera offers 12 vacation days starting after your first 3 months of employment
Prima Vacacional – Vacation bonus (25% of vacation pay)
Aguinaldo – Year-end Christmas bonus (15 days of pay)

Additional Benefits Provided by Aera/Incoraxis:

Private Health Insurance
Home Office Allowance – MXN $750 per month