Senior Database Administrator​/Data Engineer - PostgreSQL​/MySQL

Position: Senior Database Administrator / Data Engineer - PostgreSQL / MySQL
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Verizon Connect has an immediate need for an experienced Database Administrator based in the Atlanta Georgia region to join our Global Database Services team. The ideal associate will be a highly competent, results driven as well as a highly self-motivated individual.

This DBA role requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in a prompt & efficient manor, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established time frames.

Responsibilities:

Owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests.

Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs.Reviewing service-related reports (e.g. database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure operational issues are identified and resolved promptly.

Responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.

Enhancing automation for database platform provision process

Enhancing database monitoring & alerting platforms to ensure proactive alerting is always achieved.

What we’re looking for... You’ll need to have:
Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

Four or more yars of relevant Database administration experience in a large data environment

Deep understanding of PostgreSQL & MySQL database architecture and internal components with particular focus on :

-Custom automated vacuuming

Re-indexing

Statistics

Partition maintenanceH/A implementations

Backups, restores & Point-in-time recovery

Security

Monitoring & alerting

Advanced knowledge of Database Administration on the PostgreSQL (versions 17 & 18) platforms.

Advanced knowledge of Database Administration on the MySQL (8.4) platforms.

Advanced knowledge of Troubleshooting and resolving database problems in a high transaction OLTP environment.

Advanced knowledge of Database Performance Tuning & Optimization and Query cost management

Advance knowledge of writing, debugging and tuning of SQL / PLSQL code

Deep knowledge of Partitioning on both MySQL & PostgreSQLDeep knowledge of vacuum processes and housekeeping of large databases (2TB)
Significant operational and support experience with large data platforms

Experience with scripting/automation (Powershell / Python / sparc preferred).Even better if you have:

Experience with PostgreSQL & MySQL in an AWS environment, especially RDS Aurora implementations.

Experience with ownership & management of Elastic Search in AWS Experience with ownership & management of Redshift in AWS Experience in working as part of a geographically dispersed team Experience in any other database management systems (such as SQL Server)
Ability to learn new technologies and scripting…