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Hello – I am a recruiter working with the CTO of a CA based company
that is looking to add a key member to his team. The company I am working
with is doing great - privately held, profitable and the leader in online
discovery. The location for this role is San Mateo, CA. If any of
your members are interested, please have them contact me. PostgreSQL Database Administrator
Job Description: We are a fast growing
company backed by top-tier venture capital, and pioneering the new category
discovery as an on-line service. As a result of our rapid growth, we are
looking for talented individuals to join and help grow our world-operations
team. Your responsibilities
will focus on service delivery: designing, implementing, and maintaining a
best-in-class infrastructure with strict availability and performance
requirements. You'll be expected to work across functional boundaries,
contribute to process development, and participate in an on-call rotation. The most important job
requirement is the ability, experience, and desire to provide a computationally
intensive service, non-stop. Your troubleshooting skills should be top-notch,
and your communication skills should be strong. We'd like to see experience in
at least a few key areas: performance analysis, advanced storage systems,
network engineering, and infrastructure/support systems. Responsibilities: - Rotating 24x7 On-call -
Develop high performance relational databases to store content, user
personalization information, and billing/tracking data, etc. -Develop
and implement maintenance and administration procedures for the database
systems. - Ensure that backups are performed regularly on all
databases. - Work closely with software engineers to develop and
maintain stored procedures, compiled SQL, etc. Ensure that data access methods,
database kernel patches, APIs, etc. are kept current. - Develop a system for gathering database performance
metrics. Using these metrics, develop a plan to ensure that database systems
are correctly configured for optimal performance. Manage and/or participate in
implementation of database system tuning, to ensure optimal performance. - Ensure that database systems are adequately monitored.
Develop and implement a plan to ensure maximum reliability and availability of
database systems. Proactively monitor database system status to determine early
warning signs of problems. - Author and maintain scripts to perform various aspects
of administration. The DBA will document these scripts and maintain them
in the source repository. Requirements: - 5 years experience as a DBA - 3 years experience of Postgres administration and tuning in
a Linux environment - Must have strong knowledge of data relationships, data
normalization - SQL, Perl, python, ruby, bash, C or other scripting
experience - Understanding of LVM, SAN and RAID - Cacti, Nagios, or other monitoring and metrics tools - Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a fast paced growing
and evolving service delivery system -Ability to manage projects through their entire life cycle -Excellent communication skills Candidate must be able
to troubleshoot and resolve network, application, and systems issues
expediently. Candidates must be flexible to work rotating shifts in a 24 x 7
environment. Candidate must possess excellent verbal and written communication
skills. Occasional visits to our local data center will be needed, so
transportation is a necessity. Thanks, Beth Cliff Redfish Technology 401-619-3920 (p) 401-619-3925 (f) www.redfishtech.com |
