Sr. Database Engineer - PostgreSQL Admin

 
About the Role: 
Grade Level (for internal use):
11

The Team You will be part of a world class Product Services & Engineering team architecting various solutions for business requirements within different product offerings of S&P Commodity Insights, used by tens of thousands of users globally. The team is responsible for ensuring cloud database systems that deliver Greater Reliability & Resilience, High Performance, High Availability and Scalability.
The Impact You will utilize your technical knowledge and analytical skills in architecting and optimizing PostgreSQL, standardizing Aurora Postgres technology stack for relational database and applying best security policies for PostgreSQL/Aurora Postgres databases and suggesting best suitable replication practices as per business requirement.
Whats in it for you
You will be part of a talented team of DBA team that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical databases with the highest levels of availability, performance and security. The DBA team will be responsible for supporting a large-scale deployment of Aurora Postgres/PostgreSQL database systems related workloads and IT project deployment. Responsibilities

Sound knowledge on PostgreSQL, Aurora Postgres and working experience on other RDBMS like Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL Server

Good knowledge on AWS RDS

Provision of PostgreSQL RDS and monitoring and optimization of the same in AWS

Major, Minor version upgrade of PostgreSQL

Migration of PostgreSQL in on-prem to AWS RDS

Experience large PostgreSQL databases and performance tuning

Good knowledge on interal parameters and how to fine tune them

Logical/physical replication of PostgreSQL and suggesting best approach depending in business needs.

Expert communicator with both technical peers and executives in the US and India.

Perform Incident and Problem management duties.

Good knowledge on maintaining databases in AWS RDS, aurora postgres

Preparing DR strategies and implementing DR practice tests for mission critical databases to build DR availability confidence.

Performing database refreshes between various DB environments.

Capacity management which includes planning and recommend the application owners to archive the historical data, data file movement to improve the storage capacity.

Performance and Tuning, Query optimization.

Good knowledge in shell scripting, able to write shell scripts related to PostgreSQL

Suggest best practices to application team for securing PostgreSQL ,Aurora postgres databases.

Knowledge on Aurora postgres regional, global clusters.

Knowledge on implementing changes and change management process.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience

Postgres & AWS Certifications preferred

Very good experience in AWS Cloud

Experience in other RDBMS like Oracle,MySQL, MS-SQL server has added advantage

Experience in developing shell scripts, suggesting best security practices for database

Excellent communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies

Preferred Qualifications

Candidates should have a minimum of 9+ years industry experience in PostgreSQL admin.

Administer PostgreSQL in Linux, knowledge on AWS RDS and Aurora Postgres

Deploy OS patches & perform upgrades of PostgreSQL

Major, Minor version upgrades of PostgreSQL

Applying best security practices to PostgreSQL databases running on Linux

Develop Unix scripts related PostgreSQL database

Develop scripts for automation of database infrastructure provisioning in AWS.

Monitor PostgreSQL databases and

Evaluate new AWS services and solutions related to RDS.

Experience working with customers to diagnose a problem, and work toward resolution

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Understanding of various PostgreSQL logical/physical replication and suggesting best solution according to business needs.

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