Re: Junior DBA for Financial Services Company in Chicago, IL

The company I work for is currently seeking a Junior pgSQL Database Administrator to join our technology team. A successful candidate will learn how to administer, build, maintain, and optimize databases in a fast paced financial services company. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join a growing organization.

Key Skills and Responsibilities:

* Ongoing support and administration of existing production, staging,QA and development database environments

* Provide database support to ensure high availability and best sustainable performance

* Review SQL code and implement all changes to the development and production databases

* Work with development teams to optimize queries and stored procedures used in custom applications

* Support back end for 3rd party applications (e.g. G/L, BI, CRM, etc.)

Requirements:

* 2+ years hands on Linux or Unix experience

* 2+ years of experience working with, in order of preference, one or more of: EnterpriseDB, Kdb+, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server

* B.S. or equivalent education/work experience is required

* Basic understanding of relational database/schema design, SQL query and stored procedure development and enhancement

* Ability to manage multiple, simultaneous issues

* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

* Solid problem solving skills

* Basic scripting skills required; development experience a plus

* Strong desire to learn/administer/support EnterpriseDB/PostgreSQL/Kdb+

Please respond with a short introduction and resume, if I can comfortably say you are a strong candidate after a brief e-mail conversation I would love to refer/recommend you to our HR team for consideration.

Thanks,

Mark Petersen