I’d like to post an opportunity for a PostgreSQL DBA with MessageOne in Austin, TX.  Your assistance is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

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Mike Zukauskas

Senior Technical Recruiter

mike_zukauskas@messageone.com

http://www.messageone.com

MessageOne

11044 Research Blvd

Building C, Fifth Floor

Austin, TX 78759

(512) 366-7185 (office)

MessageOne, Inc.

PostgreSQL DBA

Description

MessageOne, the fastest growing company in the business continuity industry, is looking for talented database engineers to design, implement and maintain its database systems. The Postgres DBA will work closely with the MessageOne Operations team to ensure the integrity and efficiency of all production, staging, and business analytics databases, focusing on performance analysis, high availability, and data integrity. If you love databases, enjoy working on a variety of them, get a kick out of tweaking, configuring and re-configuring, building tools and automations around them and making them efficient (and fast), this could be the job for you. This is your opportunity to help build what will become one of the largest most distributed instances of Postgres in the world.

Candidates must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to strong cross-functional product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate 24/7/365 high availability Postgres production and development databases.
• Define and implement maintenance procedures including Disaster Recovery and DB maintenance (VACUUM scheduling)
• Investigate and implement high-availability solutions to achieve uptime goals
• Develop back-up and recovery procedures, including testing back-ups and data integrity
• Design and implement measurement systems to assess service delivery and key performance indicators of critical applications.
• Plan and support the implementation of major architectural changes
• Provide direction in capacity planning, performance improvements, and storage management in partnership with Operations and Development teams
• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of issues
• Interface with Network, Hardware and System operations teams to resolve problems with application/database systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years supporting production database systems in a 24/7/365 environment
• PostgreSQL or Enterprisedb configuration and performance tuning experience
• Extensive experience working with highly available enterprise database systems
• Experience in high transaction rate OLTP environment
• Experience working with PostgreSQL backups using PostgreSQL database dumps and transaction logs
• Experience with database replication (Slony), clustering, and table partitioning
• Experience tuning Linux to get the best performance possible for PostgreSQL
• Experience with database layouts on high performance disk subsystems
• Excellent SQL skills and experience with scripting languages (Python/Perl/Shell scripting)
• Knowledge of Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, and Types
• Understand use of Normalization and Denormalization, including the benefits of each
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills conducive to team development
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience