Senior DBA - Oakland, CA
Julia Tverskaya <[email protected]>
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My client, a leading provider of online grading and originality services to educational institutions worldwide, is looking for a senior Database Administrator to join their team in Oakland, CA. The company is profitable with stable growth. Located in beautiful downtown Oakland, easy walking distance from BART. Offer a friendly and fun atmosphere, quiet work environment, flexible schedule, and other perks. JOB DESCRIPTION We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator who thinks in clever ways to solve problems of scale and load with elegant solutions. Our database team supports several Postgres databases up to 500+GB each over 50 database servers across four data centers. As a senior member of this team, you will work closely with QA, engineering, and project management to help us bring automation, stability, and general awesomeness into this architecture. Responsibilities: - Setup and maintenance of postgres master-slave clusters utilizing streaming replication (Slony a bonus, but not required) - Cross-datacenter disaster recovery and backup architecture - Performance monitoring and optimization - Query optimization and troubleshooting - Close collaboration with engineering on schema additions and updates utilizing Liquibase - Participation in week-long on-call rotations QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of experience administering PostgreSQL databases - Experience with automation tools such as CFEngine, Chef, or Puppet - Thorough understanding of normal forms, and when to break them - Solid scripting skills - Experience with Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Graphite or similar monitoring tools - Ability to drive a project from inception to completion - Enthusiasm for solving challenging problems - Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience Local candidates are strongly preferred. Sorry, we do not work with visas. If interested, please contact me at [email protected] Thank you, Julia Tverskaya https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtverskaya Partner, Brain Gain Recruiting http://braingainrecruiting.com/jobs/ ---------- http://www.avast.com/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.