Melbourne job: Postgres DBA

Melbourne,Australia job: Postgres Database Admin
** Great company, highly successful
** Exciting Internet software, expanding systems
This Melbourne company is seeking a Postgres DBA to join the team.
These systems gather and analyse huge quantities of data. Handling  
enormous volumes of data efficiently is one of the key challenges.
The Postgres systems here have approximately 300 terabytes online in a  
mirrored configuration.
You'll have the opportunity to learn Hadoop and NoSQL technologies.
You'll be operating in an open source environment and architecting  
solutions, with an emphasis on SQL.

A new role has been created for a Senior Database Administrator to  
join the team that take responsibility for all aspects of database  
management.

This role includes the following responsibilities:
** Ensuring the uptime of the production databases
** Working closely with a team of 50 developers, testers and systems  
administrators
** Ensuring optimum database performance
** Addressing database performance problems
** Building new database servers and systems
** Tuning databases
** Implementing database replication
** Executing database backups
** Managing database security
** Managing database users and access control
** Advising developers on database related issues
** Design and implementation of disaster recovery
** Extremely strong SQL
** Scripting - shell, Perl
** Extremely strong Linux or Unix knowledge
** Monitoring of operational systems
** Providing advice and recommendations on database strategy for the  
organisation

We're looking for someone who:
** Loves their work
** Is highly responsive
** Is strongly customer focused
** Is a tenacious problem solver
** Gets along well with the other people on the team
** Is committed to getting excellent results
** Passionate about technology and databases
** Responsible and reliable
** Clear communication skills
** Has initiative
** Has a "mission-critical" uptime attitude

If you are passionate about database technology and want to work at an  
exciting, technology focused company in a team of highly technical  
people, then this may be the role for you.

This is a salaried role.

If this sounds like you send your resume to [email protected]

Phone enquiries to (03) 9696 1616


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