Apton Associates is working with the global leader in brand protection of enterprises. They offer comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard revenue, reputation and brands from online risks. The company is six years old has 175 employees in three states and an office in Europe. They have signed many Fortune 500 companies and they expect an additional 20% growth in revenue this year. Job Title: Database Administrator; Position Type; Full-time regular employee with full benefits; We have an immediate opening for a Database Administrator. Job Description: This person is ultimately responsible for the integrity of high-volume databases and improving the overall system to increase fault tolerance system and high performance. The position involves administration activities supporting mission-critical products. The position is highly technical but involves a day-to-day communications with Development and QA Teams. A good candidate should have a "can-do" attitude, work well in a cross-functional environment, must be able to work without tight supervision and lead others. Candidate should be a self-starter, quick learner and great team player. Responsibilities include design of the data storage hardware infrastructure, optimizing and tuning systems for OLTP performance, and query analysis and profiling. A key task will also involve designing applications with developers to ensure optimal use of data storage systems. The person in this role will be expected to use, define, and enforce best-practices in data management based upon standard industry practices. Candidate must have proven skills operationally in managing multiple production server environments, including system monitoring, security management, schema deployment and lifecycle, system upgrades, troubleshooting, disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, file system maintenance, and replicating databases. Candidate must have 5+ years experience supporting large, replicated databases in a 24x7 geographically distributed production environment. Required Skills and Experience: Administration .Expert knowledge of RDBMS concepts including query and data model optimization covering indexing, bitmaps, query plans, data file organization, etc. .Work with developers to understand applications and operational system parameters and contribute to engineering designs .Experienced working with large data warehouses .Administration skills for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL and Sybase .Ensures availability and integrity of data .Hands on day-to-day maintenance and backups .Oversees replication processes Preferred skills: .Nagios, Moodss and Cacti monitoring (or other comparable tools), .Proficient with generating data analysis reports Location: San Francisco, CA (near Bart and Caltrain) Please indicate if you require sponsorship to work in the US? Work Authorization - must be eligible to work in the USA on a full time and unlimited basis without any restrictions. If interested please call or send your formatted resume to; Email; mapton (at) aa-technical-recruiter.com Mark Apton Apton Associates 408 241-1603 www.AA-Technical-Recruiter.com If this is not a match for you, please consider forwarding this to interested parties. We pay for referrals. -- Sent via pgsql-jobs mailing list (pgsql-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-jobs
