EDB Postgres Database Admin Security Clearance

Position: EDB Postgres Database Admin with Security Clearance
Location:

* Radford, VA (Onsite 2-days per week minimum) Security Clearance:
* Secret Citizenship:
* US Required

Certifications:

* CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent DoD 8140 foundational)
* EDB Postgres Database certification (for example, EDB Postgres Essentials, EDB Postgres Advanced, EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials)

Job Responsibilities:

* This database administrative position will challenge the candidate to expand his/her skillsets and learn new technologies in a fast-paced and friendly environment. The successful candidate remains up to date on vendor technologies and recommended best practices in a highly available, enterprise environment. The successful candidate for this position will be solid in EDB Postgres and familiar with MySQL and Oracle.

* This position typically works 40 hours per week with a blend of onsite and telework. Currently, onsite work is required 2 days a week and telework is 3 days a week.

Required Skills:

* Five or more years of experience (including design, installation, configuration, administration, upgrades, tuning, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting) with EDB Postgres in a Unix/Oracle Enterprise Linux environment on virtual servers; similar skills are desired for MySQL and Oracle

* Experience with EDB Postgres 14.19 or higher

* Experience utilizing DoD and commercial certificates (rather than self-signed certificates) for logins

* Experience with PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager)

* Experience using Ora2pg to migrate Oracle databases to EDB Postgres

* Strong backup and recovery experience using Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager)

* Strong performance tuning experience for both transactional and analytical workloads

* Strong troubleshooting experience utilizing database and operating system capabilities

* Strong shell scripting experience in PL/pgSQL

* Strong bash shell scripting experience in Unix/Oracle Enterprise Linux

* Strong system administration experience

* Strong documentation skills

* Strong interpersonal skills

* Participation in a 24x7 on-call support rotation Preferred

Skills:

* Databases: EDB Postgres 14.19 or higher, MySQL 8 or higher, Oracle 19c or higher

* EDB Postgres replication experience

* Experience with Kerberos

* Experience with Apache Tomcat

* Shell scripting experience in MySQL, and Oracle PL/SQL

* Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and Security Requirements Guides (SRG)

* Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

* Azure Database for Postgre

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