Opening for Postgres SQL Database Administrator-10+ YEARS-REMOTE
Position: Postgres DBA
Location: Barkley Heights, NJ/ Alpharetta, GA/ REMOTE
Job Description:
The Sr. Database Administrator maintains PostgreSQL databases for various applications, including all client-facing environments, database backup, support of databases across internal and end-user applications. Responsibilities include improvements to database integrity through quality assurance and manages change control processes related to the database environments. Additional responsibilities include analyzing existing database applications for performance tuning, alerting & monitoring, working with application developers to integrate efforts with relational databases, participate in team or company projects as required, maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of existing best practices in database administration, design, and implementation, capacity planning and provides on-site support.
As a Senior Database Administrator, responsibilities include:
• Migration
o Experience with On-Prem to Cloud Migrations (Backup/Restore, Export/Import, Load Testing, Bench Marking Old Vs New Environments)
o Act as the PostgreSQL SME to provide expert level of migration expertise
o Ensuring timely completion of migration tasks
• Real time monitoring
o Proactively monitor and manage a large database infrastructure across multiple applications
• Troubleshooting
o Provide expert level troubleshooting to quickly identify and resolve database related incidents across a wide array of technologies and platforms
o Responsible for participating in root cause analysis and problem resolution
o Makes technical decisions during high priority incidents focused on impact remediation and communicates clearly to call participants and leadership
o Perform updates/changes during maintenance windows
o Understand current capacity issues and the capacity planning processes
o Work with team to review change requests
o Participate in software deployments
o Assimilate organizational objectives into operational action plans
• Change Management
o Support a rigorous change control process including creating, reviewing, approving, and implementing change records for database activities
• Vendor Management
o Engage, drive, and escalate issues with database vendors related to incident management
• Problem Management
o Support a rigorous problem management process including problem creation and review database activities
• Other duties as assigned
o Participate in special projects representing database operations on new implementations or troubleshooting deep dives
o Identify opportunities for automation of manual tasks
You're the type of person who:
• Has excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with clients, vendors, engineers, and managers at various levels
• Has the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical employees
• Has the ability to manage and prioritize multiple incidents with potentially competing priorities
• Collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from multiple sources
• Has the ability to work with a global team and apply knowledge to coach and mentor team members as required
• Is self-motivated, detail oriented, organized, thorough, and able to think "outside the box"
• Has a strong desire to learn and grow
Basic qualifications for consideration:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or information technology or equivalent work experience
o At least 8+ years' experience working as a PostgreSQL Server DBA in an Enterprise environment.
• Experience with backup processes & procedures
• Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills
• The ability to document standard operational procedures
• Knowledge and experience with capacity planning as it pertains to databases
• Ability to work Autonomously and as part of a team
• Other Database Platform (Oracle, SQL, DB2, etc.) skills are plus.
Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:
• Experience with Cloud Technology concepts, topologies, and service models (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS, Azure, AWS) is a plus
• Hands-on experience working with various recent versions of PostgreSQL. Experience with MS SQL and/or DB2 SQL is a big plus
• Knowledge and experience with database management and other monitoring tools (Foglight, Splunk, Extrahop, Dynatrace, etc.)
• Hands-on experience working with Server partition design and implement.
• Knowledge and experience on database HA/ DR design and implementation, always-on grouping, replication, mirroring, and log shipping.
• Knowledge and experience on design and support large database migration strategy.
• Hands-on experience working with in-place database upgrade experiences on VM and physical servers.
• Knowledge and experience on database service broker (or similar) troubleshooting is a plus
• PostgreSQL Certifications are preferred, MCSE/DB2 Certifications are a plus
• Travel required: Less than 5% travel
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