Specialist Systems Engineer - Postgres SQL

Role / Job Summary:   Postgres DBA L2 accountable & responsible for handling global database operations.  Candidates must be willing to work in rotational shifts(24*7).

Location: Bangalore/Chennai

Years of Experience:      4 – 8 years

Key Responsibilities

Own 24* 7 database support; handling Incidents, Requests, Problems & Changes.

Handle on-call database support during week-ends & out of business hours.

Own & deliver various client & infra projects.

Plan & deliver various projects around database patching, upgrades & migrations.

Management of various tools/scripts being used for databases.

Managing Primary DBA roles for multiple applications.

Contribution towards automation of recurrent tasks.

Ticket reduction through problem management.

Manage disaster recovery tests & exercises.

Identify & deliver various POCs (Proof of concepts) for latest RDBMS features, open source & new technologies.

Work closely with application teams to provide solutions across various requirements & problems.

Proactively identify the problems and provide solutions to avoid incidents & application outages.

Work with other infra teams to optimize databases performance and reduce incidents probability.

Mandatory Skills and Experience:

Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications.

Experience on PG version – PG 12, PG 13, PG 14 & PG 15

Excellent knowledge of PG RDBMS (all versions) architecture & design.

Excellent knowledge of Architecture, Backup, Recovery (PITTR), Replication & Performance Tuning concepts.

Experienced in backup and recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL, setting up WAL archiving, Point in Time Recovery

Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions – REPMGR, PGBACKREST, pg_repack, pg_crypto, pg_audit, Data Wrapper, pg_bouncer,

Good understanding of configuration files such as Pg_hba.Conf, Postgresql.Conf (with knowledge on Parameter values)

Scripting knowledge using Ansibel and SHELL

Proficient in troubleshooting & solving complex performance problems.

Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.

Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools

Experience in handling Disaster Recovery tests & exercises.

Certifications and experience of managing RDS for PostgreSQL on AWS

Experience in working on a large-scale environment (at least 1000 + databases with bigger sizes).

Working experience in banking domain (preferred).

Expert knowledge of ITIL processes around Incident, Problem, Change, Quality Management and CSI.

Exceptional coordination, communication and interpersonal skills to work across global teams and clients.

Demonstrated ability to analyze, diagnose and assess problems; work with global stakeholders to derive tactical and long-term solutions as appropriate.

Demonstrable crisis management skills in a large, globally distributed environment.

Experience working with or in an automated operations environment

Experience managing operations on core & cloud-based infra environments – ‘AaS platform’ experience ideal.

Preferred Education, Skills and Experience:

Certifications and experience of managing RDS for PostgreSQL on AWS

Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions – REPMGR, PGBACKREST, pg_repack, pg_crypto, pg_audit, Data Wrapper, pg_bouncer

Good understanding of configuration files such as Pg_hba.Conf, Postgresql.Conf.

Experienced in backup and recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL, setting up WAL archiving, Point in Time Recovery

Experience in Ansible, Shell / Perl / Python Scripting

Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.

Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools

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