Senior PostgreSQL DBA

Base Pay Range: $/yr - $/yr

Additional Compensation: Annual Bonus

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Senior Postgre

SQL DBA. Candidate will design and maintain databases and database solutions that operate within prescribed resource limits and meet company standards, as well as participate in and contribute to all phases of systems development projects, and monitor and tune database and database application performance.

• Assist with the design, implementation, and maintaining databases
• Manage database performance and disk usage
• Provide support in database access methods
• Provide consultation support in database analysis, modeling, coding, and production problem resolution.
• Develop maintenance, backup and recovery procedures and documentation
• Participate in Disaster Recovery drills
• Provide Primary On-Call Support for production problems
• Understand and support corporate data standards
• Recommend and assist with new DBMS and operational standards.
• Participate in testing and in evaluations of new software and software release upgrades
• Support business studies, proposal teams and costing/feasibility studies

• [Required] 3+ years’ experience developing and maintaining complex applications that make extensive use of a supported database technology or 3+ years’ experience as an associate DBA
• [Required] Well versed in all phases of Systems Analysis and Design
• [Required] Experienced in two or more programming languages and two or more scripting languages
• [Required] Practiced at Entity/Relationship or Object modeling and translation to physical database designs
• [Required] Proficient in DML, DDL, and database utilities for at least two DBMS technologies
• [Required] Proficient in all access methods of a DBMS as well as the underlying operating system access methods
• [Required] Knowledge of hardware and operating system capabilities within one Environment
• [Required] Understanding of all software subsystems (DBMS, TP Managers, etc.) for one environment
• [Required] Accepts ownership in assignments, team, and company and takes initiative outside immediate area of responsibility
• [Required] Speed / Sense of Urgency –Contributes additional effort when necessary to get the job done and to help others meet their objectives
• [Required] Seeks additional responsibility, shows initiative to learn every aspect of the job, and strives to become a mentor to others in area of expertise
• [Required] Communicates openly and effectively. Challenges established practices appropriately
• [Required] Ability to maintain composure under pressure and avoid defensive or irritated or reactions in challenging situations

• [Required] 7+ years’ experience with Postgre
  
  SQL (preferred Enterprise
  
  DB (EDB) version)
• [Required] 3+ year’ Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins & CI/CD skills
• [Preferred] 3+ years’ experience with CTE(Cipher Trust Transparent Encryption), Barman (EDB Backup and Recovery Manager) and AWS
• [Preferred] 5+ years’ experience with DB2 LUW; preferably on Red Hat Linux
• [Preferred] 1+ years’ experience with SQL Server
• [Preferred] 1+ years’ experience with MySQL/MariaDB
• [Preferred] 1+ years’ experience with DB2 in a z/OS environment

• [Required] bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Business
• [Preferred] Related financial industry experiences

• [Preferred] Postgre
  
  SQL Professional Certification
• [Preferred] IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows