Senior Database Consultant, PostgreSQL

October 31

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Pythian

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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Data Analytics

Pythian is a global data and analytics services company that specializes in helping organizations transform by leveraging data, analytics, AI, and the cloud. Pythian offers services in database management, cloud solutions, digital workplaces, and enterprise applications, working with partners like AWS, Google, and Microsoft. The company enables clients to optimize their data estates, secure their data, and drive better business outcomes through advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. Pythian serves a variety of industries, including financial, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and education, providing tailored solutions that enhance operational efficiency, security, and innovation.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1997

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $15M Venture Round on 2017-05

📋 Description

• Provide comprehensive support for all database and application infrastructure aspects to a diverse client base. • 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 current operational procedures. • Administer backup procedures and disaster recovery plans, involving proactive monitoring to prevent issues, responding to alerts, and troubleshooting operational problems. • Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication, failover, and the restoration of corrupted databases. • Develop and review action plans for maintenance, deployment, and upgrades. • Develop, implement, and maintain complex data architectures. • Lead problem management efforts by assessing incidents for recurring patterns. • 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 and respond to client requests and inquiries. • Maintain client alignment with operating procedures and manage client allotments.

🎯 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

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity. • Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection. • Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry! • Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like! • Love your workspace: 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! • Love yourself: 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.