Role / Job Summary: Postgres DBA (Consultant Technical Lead)
Location: Bangalore/Chennai
Years of Experience: 8 – 12 years
Key Responsibilities
Providing round-the-clock database support, including handling incidents, requests, and changes.
Automating regular patch deployments, installations, and other routine tasks.
Designing and developing scalable database architectures to meet business requirements, along with recommending hardware and network solutions.
Optimizing data storage, retrieval, and indexing for improved performance efficiency.
Ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance with industry standards.
Collaboration with application developers, system administrators and other teams to enhance database operations and support.
Use of Performance Monitor, optimizing queries, and tracing long-running queries, blockages, and deadlocks.
Contribution towards automation of recurrent tasks.
Ticket reduction through problem management.
Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions
Account management tasks include creating, deleting, and modifying profiles, as well as managing security and audit control parameters.
Knowledgeable in index defragmentation, re-indexing, updating index statistics and query tuning.
Proficient to manage DR and Resiliency strategies and underlying infrastructure architecture knowledge.
Proficient in troubleshooting & solving complex performance problems.
Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.
Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools
Working closely with application developers to optimize database interactions.
Strong background to conduct proof of concepts (POCs) for new features and enhancements to reduce costs.
Research and recommend new database technologies through POCs.
Proficient in documenting database structures, policies, and procedures.
Awareness to any of 2 public cloud platforms and responsible to integration designs from Tradi environments
Responsible for design implementation and manage cloud-based database solutions.
Manage projects and ensure technical solutions meet business needs. Provide guidance and mentor the team members.
Proficient in managing migration other databases like MSSQL/Sybase/Oracle to PostgreSQL
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.
Experience in Backup and Recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL
Experience in 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 operation 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
Your future duties and responsibilities
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
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