Database Administrator assigned to your roadmap.
A Database Administrator keeps the database fast, backed up and recoverable. The value shows up on the day something goes wrong.
Assigned under one service agreement with a minimum monthly capacity in hours, run by a service delivery manager in Chiang Mai, Thailand — five hours ahead of Northern Europe.
This role is delivered as part of our data engineering services. Take the role on its own, or the whole discipline as one delivery team.
What a Database Administrator does on a managed data engineering team.
Skills and scope are agreed before delivery starts, so the first sprint is productive rather than a ramp-up month. The work runs to the same backlog, the same repositories and the same definition of done as your own team's.
Database Administrator skills and technology we assign for
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Query and index tuning, usually the cheapest performance win available to a product team.
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Backup, recovery testing and replication, including actually restoring to prove it works.
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Capacity planning, upgrades and migrations without unplanned downtime.
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Connection pooling and configuration tuning, which often fixes what looks like an application problem.
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Planning and executing major version upgrades with a tested rollback path.
Seniority levels we assign.
Mid to senior, frequently assigned at partial capacity alongside a development team. Seniority is one of the inputs in how the monthly fee is built.
When a Database Administrator is the right assignment.
Often part-time capacity alongside a Data Engineer or backend team. On an ongoing roadmap this role is most often assigned alongside a Data Engineer or an Analytics Engineer. All 4 roles in this service line can sit on the same agreement, and capacity moves between them at the monthly cycle rather than requiring a new contract. It is one of the assignments that make up data engineering outsourcing at Azendo.
Questions about assigning a Database Administrator.
Do you test our backups?
Yes, by restoring them. A backup that has never been restored is an assumption rather than a backup.
Can you tune queries without changing application code?
Often, through indexing and configuration. Where the query itself is the problem, we work with your developers to change it.
Add database administrator capacity to your roadmap.
Tell us the scope and the stack. We come back with the profile, the capacity and what the first month looks like, or you can talk to a service delivery manager first.
Assign a Database Administrator to your roadmap.
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