PostgreSQL DBA - TechDigital
Alpharetta, GA
About the Job
Please share PostgreSQL DBA profiles who have experience in On-Prem and Cloud, Implementation and migrations from On-Prem to Cloud.
As a Senior Database Administrator, responsibilities include:
• Migration
As a Senior Database Administrator, responsibilities include:
• Migration
- Experience with On-Prem to Cloud Migrations (Backup/Restore, Export/Import, Load Testing, Bench Marking Old Vs New Environments)
- Act as the PostgreSQL SME to provide expert level of migration expertise
- Ensuring timely completion of migration tasks
• Real time monitoring
- Proactively monitor and manage a large database infrastructure across multiple applications
• Troubleshooting
- Provide expert level troubleshooting to quickly identify and resolve database related incidents across a wide array of technologies and platforms
- Responsible for participating in root cause analysis and problem resolution
- Makes technical decisions during high priority incidents focused on impact remediation and communicates clearly to call participants and leadership
- Perform updates/changes during maintenance windows
- Understand current capacity issues and the capacity planning processes
- Work with team to review change requests
- Participate in software deployments
- Assimilate organizational objectives into operational action plans
• Change Management
- Support a rigorous change control process including creating, reviewing, approving, and implementing change records for database activities
• Vendor Management
- Engage, drive, and escalate issues with database vendors related to incident management
• Problem Management
- Support a rigorous problem management process including problem creation and review database activities
• Other duties as assigned
- Participate in special projects representing database operations on new implementations or troubleshooting deep dives
- 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
- 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
Source : TechDigital
