Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL

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Location

Overland Park, Kansas

Responsibilities

  • Conceptualize and build architecture and lifecycle models and strategies for the on-premises and AWS PostgreSQL environments.
  • Work with other divisional and corporate teams to develop strategic plans for cloud migrations and technology changes.
  • Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain/administer PostgreSQL clusters.
  • Work with service consumers to coordinate periodic DB management operations and upgrades.
  • Provide recommendations and execute planned adjustments for optimizing performance on all PostgreSQL database instances.
  • Manage monitoring of the PostgreSQL footprint.
  • Manage replication administration and monitoring for the PostgreSQL footprint.
  • Act as subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving PostgreSQL service and performance issues.
  • Perform oncall rotations, serving as PostgreSQL SME and initial contact for other DB platforms.
  • Perform administrative tasks in the PostgreSQL environment including but not limited to user administration, permissions, schema and instance creation, security adjustments, storage administration, backup and recovery, and service tickets.
  • Collaborate with service consumers to optimize database design and queries
  • Create basic automation scripts (Shell, Perl or Python), Jenkins experience a plus.
  • Other Responsibilities Assigned by Manager
  • Some Travel May be Required
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Qualifications

  • Proactive and thorough communication skills with teammates, service consumers, and management are required to succeed in this role.
  • 5+ Years supporting, maintain, administering PostgreSQL clusters in an enterprise environment.
  • Strong experience with current versions of PostgreSQL and it’s derivatives
  • Ability to enhance knowledge with other DB platforms will be required.
  • Strong AWS environment experience required to succeed in this role.
  • Strong experience with RedHat Linux (or derivatives)
  • Intermediate experience scripting in Bash, Perl, and/or Python
  • Must be able to participate in on-call rotation.
  • Must have experience and be able to support operational tasks such as patching and administration.
  • Should have experience in a 24x7x365 enterprise environment meeting uptime SLA’s of 99.99% or greater.

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Salary will generally fall between $86,772 - $114,174 before adjustment for geographic differences. Recruiter can confirm if position is incentive eligible.

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Requisition Number:2024-5691


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