PostgreSQL Database Engineer

Our client, a financial sciences company, combining data analysis,
invention, and rigorous inquiry to help solve the toughest challenges in
investment management, insurance technology, securities, private equity,
and venture capital.

their team of scientists, technologists, and academics looks beyond the
traditional to develop creative solutions to some of the world’s most
complex economic problems.
The Database Engineering team operates the most critical database
systems which are integrated tightly with their highly parallel research
environment and core live trading systems. They are also developing new
database services and solutions to further scale their research platform
and growing their database offerings by adopting cloud native database
platforms. The challenge, complexity, and impact of this team will grow
substantially as they scale their research and trading systems to remain
at the forefront of an industry where latencies are approaching zero and
the depth and breadth of relevant data sources is growing exponentially.

*You will take on the following responsibilities:*

* Provide production support for the critical applications running on
PostgreSQL to ensure ongoing health and fast recovery in the event
of a failure
* Provide consultation for user adoption, application optimization,
and usage best practices
* Design and build software to integrate modern database solutions
with their data ecosystem (Storage backend, development toolings, etc)
* Research and evaluate new database technologies or tools, adopt them
to improve their database infrastructure’s manageability,
scalability and productivity
* Design and implement software components & services to enable
seamless user adoption of cloud database services. This includes but
is not limited to: tooling for data replication/migration, database
backup and recovery, mainstreaming observability and monitoring, and
automation for provisioning and upgrade

*You should possess the following qualifications:*

* Minimum 7 years of experience required; 7-15 years of experience
preferred within the database domain
* BS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical subject area
* Expertise working with PostgreSQL databases
* Hands-on experience working with a Public Cloud Platform & running
databases in the Cloud
* Hands-on experience with database design, application integration,
and performance tuning
* Strong software engineering skills - designing, developing, testing
and troubleshooting code in one and/or more of the following
programming languages: Python, Java, or PowerShell
* Experience in designing and leading system automation and
integration related work
* Good understanding of operating systems (Linux & Windows), network
fundamentals, and system performance

Tom Morgan
Managing Partner
Pencom Systems, Inc.
phone:  212 671 1967
mobile: 917 742 7612
http://www.pencom.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommorgan1