Pythian

Founded in 1997, Pythian is a privately held information technology and services company offering expertise in DevOps, cloud, big data infrastructure, infrastru

Senior Database Consultant, PostgreSQL

Location

India

Posted

20 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Database Consultant, PostgreSQL

Pythian

• Provide comprehensive support for all database and application infrastructure aspects to a diverse client base. • Deliver and consult on services, as well as implement improvements and optimizations for managed services customers. • Coordinate, analyze, design, implement, and administer IT solutions, including database server configuration and ongoing maintenance. • Analyze client infrastructure and processes, recommending best practices to enhance operational procedures. • Ensure maximum uptime and recoverability for all databases. • Administer backup procedures and disaster recovery plans, including proactive monitoring to prevent issues. • Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication, failover, and restoration of corrupted databases. • Develop and review action plans for maintenance, deployment, and upgrades, ensuring all relevant client documentation is completed. • Maintain a thorough understanding of client information, including warnings, handoffs, and briefing notes. • Develop, implement, and maintain complex data architectures (e.g., normalized and/or dimensional data models and DDL generation). • Perform data transformation and migration using scripts or stored procedures. • Lead problem management efforts by assessing incidents for recurring patterns and designing technical procedures. • Participate equally in the team’s on call rotation, typically one weekend per month. • Make, manage, and meet client commitments in collaboration with team members. • Prepare client status and incident reports, review client reports regularly, and respond to client requests and inquiries. • Maintain alignment with client operating procedures, including change control, and manage client allotments.

Job Requirements

  • Knowledge and experience in installing, configuring and upgrading PostgreSQL databases & tools relevant in PostgreSQL Administration.
  • Experience administering PostgreSQL in virtualized and cloud environments, especially AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • Experience with scripting (bash/python) and software development (C++, Java, Go).
  • Automation technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, SALT experience.
  • Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues.
  • Very good documentation skills.
  • Nice to haves include; Understanding of current IT service standards such as ITIL.
  • Being a contributor to projects relevant to PostgreSQL, or other database or infrastructure software.
  • Hands-on experience in monitoring PostgreSQL databases using industry-standard tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, SolarWinds, pgAdmin, Zabbix, Nagios and Datadog.
  • Experience with cloud-native and managed database monitoring tools, including AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Operations (Stackdriver), and Azure Monitor.
  • This includes configuring monitoring solutions, analyzing performance metrics, setting up alerts, and troubleshooting database issues in cloud environments.
  • Experience in setting up, configuring, and administering PostgreSQL on Kubernetes is a nice-to-have.
  • Knowledge in monitoring and observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana is a nice-to-have.
  • Experience with High Availability (HA) solutions for PostgreSQL, including Patroni, and repmgr, is required.
  • The candidate should be proficient in configuring and managing automated failover, replication, and cluster health monitoring to ensure database resilience and minimal downtime.
  • Additionally, experience with EnterpriseDB (EDB) solutions, such as EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) for multi-master replication and EDB BigAnimal for managed PostgreSQL in the cloud, would be highly beneficial.
  • Familiarity with automatic failover strategies, consensus-based leader election, and cloud-based database resilience is a plus.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL backup tools, including Barman, pgBackRest, pg_basebackup, etc. is required.
  • The candidate should be proficient in configuring full, incremental, and differential backups, as well as managing Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) and WAL archiving for disaster recovery.
  • Experience in database migrations from different database engines, including Oracle, MySQL, and MSSQL, to PostgreSQL.
  • Using migration tools such as ora2pg, AWS/GCP/Azure Database Migration Services (DMS), and other CDC-based techniques to ensure a smooth transition with minimal downtime.
  • Experience migrating between on-premises and cloud-based databases.
  • Experience analyzing and optimizing schema conversions, SQL compatibility issues, and performance tuning post-migration.
  • Experience with Debezium and Striim is not mandatory but beneficial.

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards package.
  • Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
  • Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office!
  • All you need is a stable internet connection.
  • Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
  • Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
  • We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
  • Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team.
  • You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more).
  • Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.

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