Postgre. SQL DBA The Panther Group is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for a well known client within the insurance industry's database systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines. You have In-depth knowledge and troubleshooting skills in the following: Must have skills: - 10 years of Postgre. SQL DBA experienc... more details
PostgreSQL DBA
The Panther Group is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for a well known client within the insurance industry's database systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines.
You have
In-depth knowledge and troubleshooting skills in the following:
Must have skills:
• 10+ years of PostgreSQL DBA experience
• PostgreSQL replication experience
• SQL coding and tuning experience
• Shell scripting and automation experience
• PostgreSQL PGAdmin client connectivity tool experience
• AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora
• Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
• Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience
• Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
• Ability to assess and improve SQL performance
• Understanding of PostgreSQL’s underlying storage engines
• Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
• Expert level PostgreSQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
• Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
• Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
• Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving
• Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules
Desired skills:
• Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
• Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
• Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus
• Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
• Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs
• Bachelor’s Degree or similar required
You will:
• Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes
• Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause
• Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements
• Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution
• Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets
• Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles
• Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance
• Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
• Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses
• Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc
Location: Bethlehem, PA or Holmdel, NJ. Local candidates preferred. The Database Service is scheduled to work Monday through Friday 8:00 AM ET till 5:00 PM ET. Currently candidates are working 3-days remote and 2-days in the office -operate on a 24x7x365 using an on-call rotation which the candidate will be a part of.
