Senior System Engineer

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 6 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

We are currently looking for a Senior System Engineer to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.

• Administer instances of on cloud(Azure&AWS) and on premises Databases.
• Optimise database maintenance plan & fix high availability database server issues.
• Perform database maintenance/task streamlining.
• Investigate backup/restore issues.
• Optimise database replication and disaster recovery.
• Second tier incident management.
• Investigation of root cause of incidents and proposal of short-term and long-term solutions.
• Perform on demand database backup and restore.
• Monitor SQL server cluster performance and anticipate issues.
• Patch/Update of database servers/infrastructure.
• Assist in automation of on demand database backups.
• Respond to requests for database creation, user privilege assignment.

Mandatory requirements:

• Bachelor's plus minimum of 10 years' of relevant professional experience in IT
• Fluency, in English, to at least B2 level according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
• Professional experience with cloud(Azure&AWS) and on premises Databases.
• Professional experience with SQL server.
• Strong knowledge with database technologies, especially Microsoft SQL and MySQL/Maria DB
• Strong interest in technology and a desire to learn and grow in applicable technologies field is required. Skills and knowledge must be kept current.

Additional needed qualification, knowledge, and skills:

• Knowledge of additional DB technologies advantageous.