Cloud Database Administrator - Vice President in Lisbon

Location

Lisbon, Portugal## About This Role Job Application for Cloud Database Administrator - Vice President at i Capital This role is responsible for owning the performance, reliability, security, and operation of the company's SQL and No SQL database platforms.

The role operates within a database team who partners with application engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure databases are scalable, resilient, secure, and observable across all environments.

Own end‐to‐end performance of SQL and No SQL databases across environments, including query optimization, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and tuning of database runtime parameters (e. g., Postgre SQL query plans, Mongo DB indexes, Dynamo DB access patterns).

Proactively prevent performance regressions through representative load testing, performance analysis tooling, and CI/CD validation gates.

Partner with application teams on schema design, data modeling, and workload‐driven performance improvements , including relational schemas, document models, and No SQL access patterns.

Design, operate, and harden production‐grade SQL, No SQL, and document database systems with strong replication, failover, backup/restore, and security controls.

Define, implement, and validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including routine restore testing and compliance with RPO/RTO objectives.

Establish SLIs and SLOs for database health, including latency, error rates, contention, replication lag, storage growth, and cache efficiency across SQL & No SQL databases.

Deliver actionable dashboards and alerts and maintain operational runbooks alongside up‐to‐date documentation.

Lead or participate in production incident response and post‐incident reviews related to database platforms.

Enforce database security best practices in partnership with Info Sec, including least privilege access, RBAC, auditing, encryption, secure secret handling, access reviews, and secure service‐to‐database authentication across SQL and No SQL data stores.

Codify database infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.

Standardize baseline configurations, schema migration practices, and operational guardrails across relational, document, and No SQL databases.

Hands‐on experience operating production‐scale SQL and No SQL databases , with strong troubleshooting skills under pressure.

Experience with managed cloud database services , including SQL and No SQL databases (e. g., AWS RDS/Aurora Postgre SQL , Mongo DB Atlas, Document DB, Dynamo DB).

Deep expertise across the following areas like performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, vacuum/auto vacuum, bloat management, data modeling, backup/restore, capacity planning, scalability design, and cost/performance trade‐offs Experience with observability, alerting, and operational metrics for data platforms.

Automation‐first mindset with hands‐on experience in Infrastructure as Code, Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, and repeatable operational runbooks. Experience with...