Sr. Database Engineer (PostgreSQL/AWS)
We have an immediate need for a Sr. Database Engineer to join a leading real estate technology organization for a permanent, direct hire position. The Engineer will join a small team supporting a large PostgreSQL footprint, focusing on production and development operations.
Location: Reno, Nevada (Remote working Pacific hours)
This job expects to pay about $130,000 – 160,000 annually plus benefits.
What You Will Do:
- Support a large number of PostgreSQL instances running in the organization’s hybrid cloud. Everything from RDS, Aurora, RedShift, and EnterpriseDB to community edition
- Engineer solutions that are always available and support a 24/7 operations through measured SLAs
- Manage HA architectures, disaster recovery, and backup/restore processes
- Understand and apply advanced database administration, management and performance-tuning techniques
- Repeatable builds, automation, documentation, and alerting are part of your technology wheelhouse and path to productionizing a stack
- Provide advanced technical troubleshooting for applications and database systems
- Configure and tune hardware and software to ensure optimum performance and resource utilization
- Participate in design and application review sessions
- Develop Python and shell scripts, procedures and processes for data migration and application development
What Gets You The Job:
- Minimum of seven (7) years experience with administering and maintaining Postgres-based applications to achieve reliability and availability SLAs
- Minimum of seven (7) years experience with PostgreSQL version upgrades, migrations, and patching running in a hybrid cloud
- Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, computer science or related discipline preferred
- Proven experience as a Linux System Administrator, preferably in a production environment
- Experience with tuning of SQL statements and PL/pgSQL code
- Experience with release management and SDLC
- Experience working in a 24x7 development environment
- Experience with database analysis and design expertise
- Experience with data extraction, transformation, and loading
- Experience with AWS RDS, Aurora and Redshift
- Experience with Jira, BitBucket (Git) and Confluence
- Ability to write, debug and tune SQL and PL/pgSQL, packages, procedures, functions, triggers, etc.
- Experience working directly with application developers in terms of database design, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
Please send your resume to Hannah Xu, Senior Technical Recruiter for immediate consideration.
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