Database Engineer

Duties and responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining new database programs and maintain existing programs to ensure they can handle the flow of traffic and the amount of data being stored in the database.
• Design new databases based on company needs, data storage needs, and the number of users accessing the database.
• Sufficient experience in Mobile Application coding for notification applications linked to the database.
• Continuously monitor databases and related systems to ensure high functionality and systems progress.
• Writing new support programs and scripts for databases and fix existing database problems.
• Troubleshoot database code, checking for potential problems that affect database functionality and related database programs.
• Looking through coding language to debug existing database scripts and programs.
• Reviewing daily, weekly, and monthly database reports, including user reports and systems information, to spot problems and ensure that all databases and support systems are working at peak levels. 

Qualifications:

• Software engineer, computer engineering or related fields graduated

• Experience in working with NGO’s (humanitarian field) or Syrian activists groups.

• Good communication skills.

• Understanding of the political and cultural context in Syria.

• Demonstrated written and oral English communication skills with Arabic.
• Valid legal papers (identity – residence – Turkish identity).

Personality:

1. A strong believer in human rights and values of freedom and justice.
2. Experience in working with Syrian activists groups.
3. Proactive with good communication skills.
4. Ability to work within team
5. Good time management skills, ability to multi-task and set priorities
6. Adherence to MHD Code of Conduct and internationally accepted humanitarian principles.

Skills:

• Computer coding –write and review computer codes to design high-functioning database systems, support programs, and to debug systems
• Problem-solving –look for potential problems in the database, and work to solve these issues before and after they occur
• Attention to detail – to comb through lines of code to spot potential error-causing problems and possible database security and storage capacity issues
• Programming languages – write in several common programming languages, including Python, Java, and SQL (mandatory).

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