Senior Database Administrator

Experience 8+ years

• Architect, plan, and coordinate with development and DevOps teams to implement improvements to availability, scalability, and performance of Liongard's core platform RDS PostgreSQL database instances in a cost-efficient manner.
• Monitor database performance and troubleshoot high-resource utilization.
• Analyze and optimize database performance by tuning configuration parameters, query plans, and indexes.
• Plan and perform database major version upgrades and data migrations ensuring minimal downtime across production instances.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a database administrator with at least 4 years of experience managing PostgreSQL on AWS RDS or Aurora.
• BS or higher in Computer Science or related field.

Required Skills

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL administration, including configuration, performance monitoring, query performance tuning, replication, and backup/recovery.
• Strong experience with AWS RDS, including multi-AZ and read replicas.
• Experience with partitioning, sharding, and other techniques to handle large-scale data growth.
• Experience with AWS Aurora.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and teamwork skills.

Desired Skills

• AWS Certified Database Specialty certification.
• Cybersecurity industry experience.
• Experience with DynamoDB.
• Experience with Amazon Athena.
• Experience with Grafana's LGTM stack.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies.