Senior Database Consultant, PostgreSQL
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Senior Database Consultant providing comprehensive support for all database aspects at Pythian. Collaborating with a diverse client base and leading improvements in managed services.
Responsibilities:
- Provide comprehensive support for all database and application infrastructure aspects to a diverse client base
- Delivering and consulting on services, as well as for implementing improvements and optimizations for managed services customers
- Coordinate, analyze, design, implement, and administer IT solutions, including database server configuration and ongoing maintenance
- Analyze client infrastructure and processes, recommending best practices to enhance current operational procedures
- Administer backup procedures and disaster recovery plans
- Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication, failover, and restoration of corrupted databases
- Develop and review action plans for maintenance, deployment, and upgrades
- Develop, implement, and maintain complex data architectures (e.g., normalized and/or dimensional data models and DDL generation)
- Lead problem management efforts by assessing incidents for recurring patterns
- Participate equally in the team’s on call rotation, typically one weekend per month
- Make, manage, and meet client commitments in collaboration with team members
- Prepare client status and incident reports, review client reports regularly, and respond to client requests and inquiries
- Participate in and, at times, lead efforts to suggest, recommend, and potentially design/implement new monitoring checks, enhancements to DBC toolkits, and other process improvements
Requirements:
- Knowledge and experience in installing, configuring and upgrading PostgreSQL databases & tools relevant in PostgreSQL Administration
- Experience administering PostgreSQL in virtualized and cloud environments, especially AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with scripting (bash/python) and software development (C++, Java, Go)
- Automation technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, SALT experience
- Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues
- Very good documentation skills
- Nice to haves include; Understanding of current IT service standards such as ITIL
- Being a contributor to projects relevant to PostgreSQL, or other database or infrastructure software
- Hands-on experience in monitoring PostgreSQL databases using industry-standard tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, SolarWinds, pgAdmin, Zabbix, Nagios and Datadog
- Experience with cloud-native and managed database monitoring tools, including AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Operations (Stackdriver), and Azure Monitor
- Experience in setting up, configuring, and administering PostgreSQL on Kubernetes is a nice-to-have
- Knowledge in monitoring and observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana is a nice-to-have
- Experience with High Availability (HA) solutions for PostgreSQL, including Patroni, and repmgr, is required
- Experience with PostgreSQL backup tools, including Barman, pgBackRest, pg_basebackup, etc. is required
- Experience in database migrations from different database engines, including Oracle, MySQL, and MSSQL, to PostgreSQL.
- Experience analyzing and optimizing schema conversions, SQL compatibility issues, and performance tuning post-migration
- Experience with Debezium and Striim is not mandatory but beneficial
Benefits:
- Competitive total rewards package
- Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity
- Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office
- All the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment
- An annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more)
- A generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity
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