PostgreSQL DBA - remote work

PostgreSQL DBA – remote work

Please contact me if @ rdestefano@novetta.com if you are interested in applying for this position.  This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a SECURITY CLEARANCE.

Sincerely,

Rich DeStefano

Rich DeStefano | Novetta

Sr Talent Acquisition 

rdestefano@novetta.com

www.novetta.com

Position Description:

Novetta has an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated and accomplished Database Administrator to join our Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be working on cutting-edge Cyber technologies. As a Database Administrator, you will work closely with the Development, QA and Services teams to support business goals and to help ensure Novetta products are released in a timely manner.

In this role you will:

• Create, Manage and maintain internal development, testing and production databases.
• Install, configure, update and troubleshoot large environments.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineers and Administrators on technical issues.
• Create a fast, safe system for databases in production.
• Collaborate with engineers, testers and staff.
• Automate, backup and secure everything.
• Rapidly diagnose and fix problems in production.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• +5 years relevant experience
• Knowledge of database systems theory
• Awareness of current and future trends in the relational database industry.

Desired Skills:

• Broad architectural awareness of customer applications, not only understanding database aspects (e.g. metrics, db parameters etc.) but also with ability to triage issues in an end-to-end manner aware of how web, application and caching tiers impact database performance and availability.
• Experience interacting with resolving database engine and system/infrastructure-related issues and providing guidance on systems architecture, data model, and SQL query reviews as needed.
• Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL replication technologies including Master-Master multi-replication, Master-Multiple Slave replication.
• MySQL and PostgreSQL administration and support experience including backup and recovery, replication, clustering, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Familiarity managing Application servers for data integration and reporting applications.
• Experience working in a highly segmented network with complex firewall implementations and many security features
• Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL etc.)
•  Proven track record mastering manual database-related tasks and building automation wherever possible to replace those tasks.
•  Working knowledge of at least one compiled language a plus (Java, C, C++ )
• Experience with Open Source and Big Data databases (relational and non-relational) MongoDB, CouchDB, HBase, Cassandra, etc
• Experience setting-up and managing Amazon EC2 Cloud Infrastructure (including GovCloud configuration)
• Experience with documentation of standard procedures, architecture, design and deployments
• Release management and deployment of code in different environments using source code control tools such as GitHub.
•  Has experience in the Agile Methodology.

Security Clearance:

An able to obtain a security clearance