Avature

Position available for candidates based in La Plata, Bahía Blanca, CABA, Córdoba, Rosario, or Mendoza.

At Avature, the DBA team is responsible for designing and maintaining the infrastructure where our databases run, ensuring integrity, performance, security, backup policies, and service continuity across globally distributed environments.

As a Backend DBA Engineer, you will work at the intersection of DBA, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams, contributing to automation, scalability, observability, and reliability initiatives while helping evolve the platform that supports our services.

Your challenges and objectives:

• Develop tools and automations for environment creation, deployments, and infrastructure management.
• Work with virtualization and infrastructure platforms such as AWS, KVM, LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Contribute to the design and development of highly distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform code reviews, technical analysis, and refactors to improve code quality and maintainability.
• Design and maintain configuration management systems, deployment platforms, and associated processes.
• Promote best practices in deployments, infrastructure management, observability, and security.
• Create and manage alerts and dashboards using observability tools such as Kibana and Grafana.

Your day-to-day activities:

• Open source experience, contribution to Linux/Unix distributions, or experience operating product-as-a-service environments is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Familiarity with observability technologies such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, or Alert Manager.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and automation technologies such as Puppet, Terraform, AWS, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jenkins, Rundeck, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Solid understanding of operating system concepts, particularly in Linux environments.
• Software development skills and fluency in at least one structured programming language, preferably Go, Bash, or Python.

About you:

• Software development skills and methodologies. Fluency in any structured programming language (preferably Go, BASH, or Python).
• Solid understanding of operating system concepts, particularly in Linux environments.
• Superior analytical/troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management technologies (Puppet, Terraform, LXD, AWS, KVM, Docker, etc.)
• Knowledge of infrastructure technologies (OpenStack, AWS, KVM, Docker, k8s, etc.)
• Knowledge of observability technologies (Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Alert Manager, etc.) 
• Knowledge of Automation technologies (Gitlab, Gitlab actions, CI/CD, pipelines, Jenkins, Rundeck, etc.) 
• Experience in product as a service operation is a plus. 
• Open source experience or contribution to any Linux/Unix distribution is highly desirable.

About us:

Avature is a market leading enterprise SaaS Solution provider for global talent acquisition and talent management. We have a strong commitment to high quality engineering and customer service and are recognized innovators in the very large company market. We currently work with over 650 companies worldwide, including 110 of the Fortune 500, all of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest banks and manufacturers in the world, and five governments.

We design, build, implement, and support our product ourselves. With 26 releases a year and a strong commitment to innovation and quality engineering, our private cloud platform has become the product choice for the very large global organization.

At Avature, we value opportunities to learn and grow within a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment. We encourage autonomy and empower our people to approach challenges innovatively while bringing their unique perspective to the table. We offer a career development program that supports continuous learning and thoughtful leadership, and that meaningfully impacts each individual’s professional trajectory.

What we offer:

• A fast-paced, energetic, and engaging environment.

• Flexible hours.
• Work remotely or come to the office as much as you want. We have workplaces in Buenos Aires (Palermo, La Plata and Bahía Blanca), Rosario, Mendoza and Córdoba.
• Periodic salary reviews.
• Three weeks vacations from the first year.
• Four weeks paternity leave.
• OSDE 360 health coverage (family plan).
• Four days a year to attend events related to professional development.
• Paid internet service expenses.

An organizational culture that empowers everyone to be themselves is key to thrive in business, but more importantly, it is a pathway for creating a more equitable society. Avature fosters a diverse and inclusive environment and celebrates that each unique person brings something different to our team. We are committed to considering all qualified applicants equally and to promoting equal opportunities within our organization.