Please post the following position on your site. The position is in Chicago and we are looking for someone to actually be here, no telecommuting option.
Sr. Database Administrator
Reports to: Director of IT
Responsibilities:
- Candidate will be responsible for the monitoring and uptime of all production databases
- Lead efforts to develop and improve procedures for automated monitoring and proactive intervention, reducing any need downtime
- Lead projects independently and work with other members of the team to ensure its success
- Learn and stay current with the features and functionality of Postgresql
- Recognize and recommend new equipment to solve needs and to perform the necessary stress testing of the recommended equipment
- Analyze, recommend, and implement configuration and hardware changes
- Plan, manage, and execute large scale projects
- Backup, recover, replication, resource monitoring
- Participate in a 24×7 support rotation
- Support complex web-based applications
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Experience with high availability and load environments with large data volumes at multiple locations
- Supporting large number of users in multiple locations a plus
- Good working knowledge of SQL a must
- PostgreSQL or other ‘real’ database experience a major plus
- Scripting in languages such as bash, Perl, Ruby
- Capable of writing and debugging Unix shell scripts
- Comfortable at Unix command line
- Experience with Linux or flavors of Unix from perspective of system administration in production environment are required
- MS SQL, SAS, ETL, ETL Tools a plus
- Good verbal and written communication skills are important
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 3-5 years of professional DBA work experience
Thank you.
Levi Lerner
Enova Financial, a Cash America Company
847-691-2444 Mobile
