Database Infrastructure Architect

City Network is one of the leading European providers of IT infrastructure services based on Open Source. Our company provides public, compliant, private, and hybrid cloud solutions based on OpenStack and has data centers around the world. We are a fast-growing company & European leader in infrastructure as a service. We live to get that smile on our customer's face when we solve a problem or simply provide something better than expected. That’s in fact why we go to work the next day.
City Network is part of Iver, meaning that we have more than 1200 colleagues to support us in reaching our goals of becoming the primary European IaaS alternative.
About the Role :
The role is strategic in the sense that you will help define service offerings and delivery methodologies, while also being engaged in the day-to-day delivery of services, both as an individual contributor and with other engineers.
We are looking for someone that does not fit in any of the "traditional" roles of DBA, SysAdmin, DB developer, etc. We are looking for you that know how to install, set up, manage, improve, design, and configure different database solutions in our cloud environments.
About the team:
You will work in our Customer Implementation team where we have architects in various competencies. We are a team driven by helping our customers with both designing solutions and also working on the installation for them. We work closely with our customers to always be able to contribute as much value as possible.
Responsibilities:
Our team is responsible for our company's managed services offering and we offer professional consulting services. Hence you will be responsible for contributing to driving our managed DB services. You will also be implementing customer DB solutions. You ought to have an interest in and be willing to improve and contribute upstream to open source projects.
Requirement/ Must have :
We work with all sorts of Database solutions, but mainly
MySQL
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
InfluxDB
Redis

You will need to have good knowledge of some of the above-mentioned database solutions, both in single node setup as well as clustered solutions. You should have an interest in learning the others.
Good to have:
Good knowledge of setting up and managing MS-SQL in high availability mode is a huge benefit.
We are an OpenStack cloud provider, and as you will work solely in cloud environments, it would to your advantage if you feel comfortable with some Infrastructure as Code tools like:
*Script (sh, csh, bash, zsh, fish, etc)
*Ansible
*Terraform
*Python
Personal Qualities:
• Genuinely interested in new technologies.
• Well-organised and structured.
• Accustomed to playing on a team.
What we offer:
Full-time position with 6-months probationary period.
Leave Policy : 6 weeks vacation.
Remote work : We are flexible in regard to your work place & allow you to choose for yourself.
Offices: You can also join one of our offices in Karlskrona or Stockholm

I'm interested. What's next?
We'd like to hear from you! And we have a few additional questions we would like to ask you. You'll be able to apply for this position until end of March 2022. We will start reviewing and inviting applications right away, so make sure you get yours in early.
Type of Employment :Full time position
Location : Flexible remote
Start Date : Immediate / at your earliest convenience