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BMC Lead Database Administrator Postgres / Oracle 
Ukraine, Sumy Oblast 
830139411

27.06.2024
Description and Requirements

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Responsibilities:

  • You will be responsible for implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of system health for high-concurrency PostgreSQL database systems ensuring the availability and consistent performance, supporting product development teams.
  • Build high-scale data pipelines and data infrastructure for migrating SQL Server and Oracle DB to PostgreSQL on-prem and in the cloud.
  • Resolve database performance and scalability issues and implement Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
  • Design and implement scalable database schemas and configurations, File system layout, Physical partitioning, Sharding and Replication, incremental backups, Restores, and recovery models.
  • Implement High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for PostgreSQL.
  • Develop DevOps policies and procedures as it relates to PostgreSQL.
  • Manage PostgreSQL databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems dealing with upgrades.
  • Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real-time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
  • Refine and automate regular processes, tracks issues, and documents changes.
  • Assists developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
  • Provide on-call support, as part of team rotation, for critical production systems.
  • Perform pre-scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
  • Coordinate resources to support and complete priority projects, tasks and on-call activities.
  • Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
  • Design and implement a complex system to combine and merge data from multiple database servers into a target database.
  • Create complex queries to produce materialized views collating data from multiple servers based on which server is deemed authoritative for each record.
  • Tune performance of source and target servers to ensure performance is maintained even after replication/merge engine is added.

What we need from you:

  • Very strong experience with PostgreSQL, it should have been your primary database over the last few years.
  • Ability to obtain Secret Security Clearance.
  • Deep understanding of systems performance in PostgreSQL, and advanced knowledge of Postgres internals.
  • Experience with system performance counters and metrics relevant to the operation of high-concurrency PostgreSQL implementations.
  • Very strong experience with query optimization
  • Strong experience with Oracle and/or SQL Server throughout your career.
  • Experience implementing high availability systems by setting up either streaming replication or logical replication and decoding.
  • Expertise implementing Foreign Data Wrappers to sync data across multiple PostgreSQL servers and Advanced query tuning for large data sets.
  • Knowledge on how to optimize queries/schemas.
  • Knowledge on backup, High Availability solutions and strategies
  • Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identify and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues.

Nice to have experience:

  • Specific experience in complex large data architectures using AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS data lake (S3 and Glue) with IAM roles and KMS key encryption.
  • Understand automation concepts to speed up the work using Ansible.
  • Opensource contributions to PostgreSQL


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