PostgreSQL DBA

Innova Solutions has a client that is immediately hiring for a PostgreSQL DBA

Position type: Contract(Hybrid Role)

Job Role: PostgreSQL DBA

Duration: 12 months (with high possibilities of extension)

Location: Plano, TX and Chandler, AZ and Charlotte, NC

Required Skills:
Provide end-to-end support of production applications, ensuring their stability, reliability, and performance.
Conduct in-depth problem analysis of application, troubleshoot system errors, and performance issues.
Perform proactive application stability analysis to investigate performance concerns, system errors and improvement opportunities.
Take ownership of problem root cause analysis and implement appropriate remediation.
Lead chronic issue investigations to minimize business impact and maintain system health.
Drive proactive monitoring review and implementation strategies.
Collaborate with Engineering, Application Development, and Infrastructure teams to implement break fixes, code updates, configuration changes, and production enhancements.
Handle application management, business continuity, server patching coordination, vulnerabilities remediation, Splunk monitor setup.
Lead production incident triaging calls.
Provide production on-call support, including weekend rotation on a round-robin basis.
Execute disaster recovery procedures and strategies.
Respond to and resolve production tickets promptly to meet SLA requirements.
The first and foremost skill is database administration.

PostgreSQL DBA must be skilled at monitoring and maintaining databases. They should be able to optimize the performance of the database, ensure smooth functioning, and monitor its security
Postgres DBA, strong shell scripts skill, DB replication, ability to create playbooks, and strong SME in Unix System Administration.
Experience architecting a large-scale production database platform.
Strong Knowledge of Postgres production and contingency replication feature and configuration
Strong Knowledge of Postgres HA Clustered environment.
Strong scripting language like Python or shell script
Strong experience with Linux
Strong experience with Ansible
Strong hands-on experience on failover/migration and data restores in a HA environment.
Support Database patching and ability to provide continuous support for the Application.
Experience with Splunk
Experience with Kafka
Proficient in handling crontabs and data backups using pgBackRest.
Proficient in handling Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster for PostgreSQL
Creating and maintaining documentation, troubleshooting playbooks, testing failover and recovery plans.
Perform regular database maintenance tasks.
Ability to write ansible playbooks.
PostgreSQL DBA experience in a 24x7 production environment
Experience in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL (Postgres) on Linux
Experience with database backup and recovery, including implementing disaster recovery standards (Postgres)
Experience with database design, optimization, and tuning
Experience with implementing database security concepts, including access, auditing, and encryption.
Create the objects in the database, such as triggers, indexes, etc.
Monitor the performance of the database and ensure optimum performance.
Identify potential issues in the database to solve them early.
Maintain backups and perform disaster recovery in case a disaster destroys the database.
Monitor security and prevent any unauthorized access to the database.
Schedule consistent maintenance on the server
Maintain database schema.
Manage database availability.
Give best practice guidance to the development team.
Resolve any production data issues.
Tablespace management.
Role management.
Ensure data integrity.
Maintain the database using different utilities.
Bachelor's degree or related experience
Proven experience in Database support or similar role, preferably in production environment.
Availability for on-call support, including weekend rotations, on a round-robin basis.
7+ years of experience in production database operations.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills for effective work across cross-functional teams.
Knowledge of Ansible Tower, and CICD concepts, GTM and LTM concepts, understanding of F5 load balancing

We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines. ASK ME HOW.

Thank you!

HARSHA KUMARI

Senior Associate - Recruitment

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PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:

Pay Range*: $68/HR 73/HR.

*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

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