PostgreSQL DBA (dxctechnology)

Job Description

Job Description:

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we 

Location: Onsite in Plano, Texas

Overview:  As a PostgreSQL Database Administrator, you will provide physical database support for EDB, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, and Open-Source PostgreSQL databases, ensuring the integrity and availability of the database. You are responsible for monitoring, analyzing, administrating, and performing tuning at the database and application levels. You will work with the respective application and business teams to fine-tune the databases and their application code to enhance availability, performance, and security. Design and implement highly available and scalable database platforms in on-premises and AWS environments. Automation plays a critical role in simplifying routine activities.

You will utilize your knowledge and experience with security, backup, recovery, and archiving to make recommendations regarding process improvements for logical and physical data structures. You will forecast long-range requirements for database administration while documenting the database environment and support processes. 

Mandatory Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in administering on-prem/cloud PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora/RDS/EDB/ Open-Source PostgreSQL) databases. 
•  Expertise in planning, designing, building, and implementing complex database systems.
• The candidate must have experience working in the database domain with at least Six (6) years of experience managing in of PostgreSQL DB.
•  In-depth knowledge of PostgreSQL Database architecture.
•  AWS cloud-based Postgres database administration experience.
•  Expertise in implementing and maintaining High Availability and disaster Recovery configurations like Streaming/Multi-master Replication, EFM, BDR, Logical replication, RDS Global Database, etc.
•  Expertise in Database and Query Performance Monitoring and Tuning, capacity planning for PostgreSQL databases, and using native and 3rd party tools.
• Automation skills in Shell Scripts/Python/Ansible/Terraform(cloud) to automate routine maintenance activities. 
• Experience in implementing industry best practices for consistently installing and configuring PostgreSQL for production, pre-production, and non-production environments.
• Conducted technical reviews and walkthroughs of system design documentation with development and design team members.
•  Experience in designing and developing logical and physical database designs.
•  Design and implement replication and backups for mission-critical/tier-1 applications.

Preferred Skills:

• Certified EDB PostgreSQL DBA is preferred.
•  AWS Solution Architect Certification is preferred.

Work Environment:

• Onsite in Plano, Texas

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

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