PostgreSQL DBA - New York City - $100k to $120k
Full-time/Perm position. US Citizens/Green Cards/H1Bs will all be considered. Local candidates preferred.
No relocation/telecommuting.
Position: Senior Database Administrator - Postgres
Location: NYC
Company: Software company in Media and Advertising
Responsibilities
The Senior Database Administrator participates in the overall database system architecture and the configuration of the development, testing, demonstration, training and production environments as a 24x7 operation.
This position will be involved with the migration of several custom Java applications from Oracle to EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Advanced Server. These applications are mostly transactional web based applications but there are a few applications dealing with large amounts of data through an ETL process. This position requires someone with a strong Postgres background to help apply best practices to their still evolving Postgres infrastructure.
The Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for capacity planning, high availability, load balancing and performance tuning, business continuity and monitoring of the Postgres environments. This will include assisting developers with SQL tuning and indexing.
Required Skills:
• 3+ years of Postgres administration in production application environment
• Must have led medium to large size database administrations project
• Strong understanding of high availability and load balanced solutions
• Strong understanding of Postgres system data for auditing, troubleshooting and monitoring
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Understanding of network concepts
• Strong scripting skills in one or more common languages. For example: perl, python, bash, etc.
Desired Skills:
• Experience with Java web and/or Java client-server applications
• Experience with Oracle relational database system
Ed Winstanley
Recruiting Manager
ewinstan@edwarddanielsgroup.com