About the job
As a PostgreSQL Engineer / DBA you will be heavily involved in day-to-day technical delivery and solution design of our relational data systems, together with a small team of architects and software engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Support the full project life cycle - to include any of consulting, discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation and production-readiness activities
- Support project engagements, work collaboratively with other team members, communicate effectively, and foster team success
- Maintain platforms (Postgres)
- Maintaining and creating new scripts to automate daily tasks
- Produces automation and tooling solutions which includes scripting and automation of production deployments and tools
- Environment support and maintenance
- Trouble shooting performance issues
- Technical documentation
- Maintaining standard operating procedures
- Hot-seat Support
- Capacity Reporting and maintenance include dashboard creation
- Driving Operational efficiency
- Creating internal project to improve process or operations
Training and/or Certification:
Certified in any one of the following:
- Splunk basic training
- PostgreSQL 11 Associate Certification
**Experience in the technology in a similar role
Preferred Skills:
· Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. Apache Cassandra) and NoSQL support in PostgreSQL
· PSQL experience, including stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
· Familiarity with PostgreSQL support for JSON
· Demonstrable experience working with huge, interdependent, complex datasets and data structures.
· Experience in Azure
· Working knowledge of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows
· Experience with operating system scripting languages (e.g.: Ansible, PowerShell)
· Worked on large complex projects
· Good Documentation
· Knowledge on Splunk, Elastic, Grafana
· Tools: DBeaver, MobaXterm, PgAdmin
Duties:
· Postgres Administration ensure jobs are running optimal
· Error log reporting and investigations
· Metric Monitoring
· Daily Administration of emails and attending meetings
· Postgres optimizations
· Postgres future improvements are documented including compiling of runbooks
· Capacity planning
· Extraction of Non PII data to assist development & Support teams
· Assist in Test Centre Database troubleshooting (TC’s)
· Support, Hot Seat, Standby and walk in investigations
· Ensure 30% of allocated hours are focused on Reboot Initiatives.
(Reboot being departmental improvements & enhancements.)
Don't know all of the above, don't worry! We have a healthy training budget to get you up to speed!
Derivco offers employees a great range of benefits including free lunches daily, health insurance, gym membership, social events and many more. Not only do we offer these benefits but also a great work environment.
