PostgreSQL DB Administrator

Our client is the fastest growing company in the business continuity
industry, and is looking for talented DB Engineers to design, implement
and maintain its DB Systems. You will work closely with the OPs team to
ensure all aspects of the DBs from production, staging, and business
analytics DBS are performing at optimum. If you live and breathe DB and
enjoy working with a variety of them, absolutely love fine-tuning and
constant improvements and you like working to beat the clock, we want
you now!

- Postgres production and development in a 7/24/365 high availability
environment.

- Drive the maintenance dev and procedures for DR and DB Maintenance
(VACUUM scheduling).

- Look for solutions to constantly improve and achieve uptime goals.

- Design & Implement measurement systems to assess service delivery &
key performance indicators of critical apps.

- Plan and support implementations of major architectural changes.

- Capacity planning, performance improvements storage management in
concert and partnership with Ops and Dev Teams.

- Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, trouble
shooting, issue resolution.

- Cooperative resolution of probs with Network, Hardware and System OPs
teams.

Qualifications:

BS or equivalent experience

3+ years supporting production DB systems in 7/24/365 environments

PostgreSQL config and performance tuning

Large scale enterprise DB systems experience

Hight transaction rate OLTP environment

Backups, Dumps and Table partitioning in PostgreSQL

DB replication (SLONY), clustering, table partitioning, stored
procedures, Triggers, Views and Types.

Tuning Linux with PostgeSQL

Normalization and Denormalization

Contract position located in Austin TX. 6 to 12 months.

Please send inquiries and resumes to Jobs(at)4OceanSys(dot)com