PostgreSQL Database Administrator

• The Senior Postgre SQL DBA would need to have at least 4 years of experience with development and customer support, providing technical and operational support activities of Database Servers, including logical and physical database design support, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, tuning, and optimizing.
• PostgreSQL database cloning by using Pg_dump and Pg_Restore.
• Review all PostgreSQL logs and problems.
• Experience with Postgres Connection Pooling (PgBouncer).
• Hands-on operational DBA expertise in the areas of Replication, High Availability and Backup/Recovery.
• Advanced performance-tuning skills to review performance data and prepare reports.
• SQL and Linux scripting skills are required skills.
• Strong communication skills are a requirement for this position.
• Ability to manage customer or in-house escalation calls is required
• Experience working on an Application/Development team or experience as an Application DBA.
• Responsible for managing Development, QA, Staging and Production databases and applications and implementing future enhancements to meet the business needs of the end users.
• Monitor database health - availability, reliability, performance, capacity planning.
• Upgrading PostgreSQL Databases.
• Responsible for the monitoring and uptime of all production databases.
• Estimate PostgreSQL database capacities; develop methods for monitoring database capacity and usage.
• Lead efforts to develop and improve procedures for automated monitoring and proactive intervention, reducing any need downtime.
• Responsible for developer SQL code review to ensure queries are optimized and tuned to perform efficiently prior to production release.
• Responsible for regular maintenance on databases (e.g., Vacuum, Reindexing, Archiving).
• Responsible for pro-active remediation of database operational problems.
• Participate in a 247 support rotation.
• Support complex web-based applications.
• Automatic Switchover & Failover.

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