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Primarily the engineering, deployment and support of PostgreSQL and Oracle database.

This role is part of Platform as a Service (PaaS) organization, where you are expected to spend 30-40% of your time developing DB as a Service (DBaaS) offerings and database reliability enhancement solutions. In addition, you will be database subject matter expert for multiple applications, manage the complete lifecycle of databases and participate in on-call rotation for 24x7 availability of production databases.

This includes, but is not limited to following: 

• Manage, support and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the best practices, architectural guidelines and policies.
• Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participate in on-call rotation.
• Develop/maintain Python/Shell scripts for DB automation.
• Develop and support Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings
• Manage, support and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.

• Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participating in on-call rotation.
• Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain Oracle and PostgreSQL databases in production and non-production environments.
• Support local/across the DC failover with High Availability Disaster Recovery environment (with Data Guard & Golden Gate for Oracle and Streaming & Logical Replications for PostgreSQL). Participate in Database Maintenance and DR activities.
• Write/maintain Shell/Python scripts for DB automation.
• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.
• Physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level3 issues.
• Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same.
• Work closely with other Infrastructure engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA’s and performance targets.
• Adapt business requirements, model data, and develop database specifications, table and element attributes.
• Participate in the evaluation, selection and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks such as performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing.
• Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision.

Basic Qualifications:

• 4 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

• Preferred

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 7-10 years of DBA experience managing PostgreSQL & Oracle databases (including Oracle RAC)
• 4-5 years of DBA experience managing logical & physical replication for PostgreSQL and Oracle database
• Strong Python/Perl scripting skill and experience in tools like Ansible
• Exceptional deductive reasoning skills
• Curiosity and tenacity to fully diagnose why something went wrong
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL & Oracle database fundamentals and Architecture.
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL & Oracle database security management
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL streaming and logical replication
• Good understanding of Oracle DataGuard and GoldenGate replication
• Should have good Troubleshooting and Performance Improvement Skills including index creation, query optimization, schema changes etc.
• Should have strong UNIX platform skills and understanding of network, storage, tiered application environments and security.
• Any experience developing DBaaS offerings will be a plus
• Ability to modify and integrate database and related products and develop solutions to achieve required capabilities for Persistence/DB layer.
• Experience configuring PostgreSQL monitoring using Prometheus end points, Grafana etc.
• Knowledge of programming language (Java, C++, GO) and prior development experience will be a plus
• Any contribution to PostgreSQL community will be a plus
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline and code versioning tools such as Git