ClickHouse Database Administrator (DBA) Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced

ClickHouse Database Administrator (DBA)

with 8 10 years of overall database administration experience to manage, maintain, optimize, and support large-scale ClickHouse database environments. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in database administration, performance tuning, high availability, replication, backup and recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

- Install, configure, administer, and maintain ClickHouse database environments.

- Manage database provisioning, upgrades, patching, migrations, and version management.

- Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and storage utilization.

- Perform performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and resource optimization.

- Configure and manage ClickHouse replication, clustering, distributed tables, and high-availability environments.

- Implement and manage backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.

- Troubleshoot database incidents, outages, performance bottlenecks, and production issues.

- Monitor and optimize storage, CPU, memory, and overall database resource utilization.

- Implement database security, user management, access control, and compliance requirements.

- Support production, non-production, and disaster recovery environments.

- Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Cloud, and DevOps teams to resolve database-related issues.

- Develop and maintain operational documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.





- Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and on-call production support.

Essential Skills

- Strong hands-on experience in ClickHouse Database Administration.

- Expertise in ClickHouse installation, configuration, clustering, replication, and high availability.

- Strong knowledge of database performance tuning and query optimization.

- Experience with backup, restore, disaster recovery, and database migration.

- Knowledge of database monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.

- Experience managing large-scale or high-volume database environments.

- Robust understanding of database security and user access management.

- Good knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting.

- Experience working with DevOps, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Application teams.

- Ability to handle production incidents and participate in on-call support.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with distributed databases and large-scale data platforms.

- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.

- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Knowledge of automation and scripting using Bash, Python, or similar technologies.

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is an added advantage.

Required Experience

- 8 10 years of overall experience in Database Administration.

- Strong hands-on experience specifically with ClickHouse DBA and production support.

- Experience managing mission-critical, high-volume, and highly available database environments.

Send me your resume at [email protected]

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