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Posted 4 Feb 2022

Principal Database Administrator

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Posted
4 Feb 2022

About the role

The Principal Database Engineer and DBA manages our fast-growing farm of cloud based production databases and other technologies that are essential to the operation of Zeta and associated clients. This role works closely with DBAs, operations engineers, application developers to ensure database integrity, availability, scaling, monitoring and performance..Responsibilities
  • Manage a every growing cloud based PostgreSQL and MySQL database clusters
  • Should be hands-on supporting large-scale database running on AWS
  • Proactively identify areas of optimization and troubleshoot database performance issues
  • Improve service availability and scalability through tuning, automation, tools, and process
  • Excitement to work with cutting-edge technology, experiment and discover new and more efficient ways to get things done
  • In addition to Relational Databases, be involved in everything related to NoSQL and New SQL databases like couchDB, Yugabyte and their deployments, design, maintenance, migrations, administration, configuration, etc.
  • Implement and maintain database backup and recovery, disaster recovery procedures
  • Work closely with various application development teams to ensure database changes adhere to best practices and are properly prioritized and scheduled.
  • Perform various audits of existing databases, figure out possible improvements and ways to implement them efficiently 
    • Basic Qualifications
  • 8 to 13 years hands-on experience on various relational databases with PostgreSQL as primary skillset.
  • Experience in Database Administration – configuration, backup/restore, replication, etc.
  • Experience with databases of large sizes which are in the order of 10s of TBs is a plus
  • Experience in performance optimization techniques
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent
  • Excellent Troubleshooting and Communication skills
  • Experience with Bucardo is a plus 
  •  Mandatory : Exceptional knowledge of PostgreSQL (experience with MySQL is a plus). 
  • Ability to solve problems, make sound decisions and use good judgement
  • Experience in any one of the scripting languages (bash, python) 
  • Experience in automating DBA activities using Terraform technologies.

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