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Key Responsibilities:
* This position maintains PostgreSQL and EMC Greenplum databases in our production environment.
* Documents and maintains consistent and current patches across database servers.
* Ensures data recovery, maintenance, data integrity, and space requirements for physical databases are met through formulations and monitoring of policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management.
* Audits the current environments, provides capacity planning and best practices for the future, which may include establishing new standards and procedures.
* Work occasional nights and weekends to provide 24x7 coverage of a mission-critical, operational database environment, fielding calls for assistance from Tier-4 Support personnel, and to perform off-hours database upgrades and data migration tasks.
Required Experience/Skills & Education:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems preferred.
* The ability to work well with minimal supervision, including researching answers to questions and problems encountered using a number of available resources and tools.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with others, especially in an environment that fosters independent thinking and problem solving.
* Having the means to take constructive criticism when offered, and to provide direction and insight to others who need assistance with SQL and other database related tasks.
* At least five years of relational database experience, preferably in a professional role that has supported a production environment in any of the following technologies: PostgreSQL 8.x / 9.x, MySQL, EMC Greenplum MPP, Informix, DB2, Oracle.
* At least five years experience working on a Linux or UNIX based platform including Shell programming, with a solid understanding of the operating system features required to install, configure and maintain a database. Strong troubleshooting skills for related performance and operational issues.
* At least five years experience performing routine administration tasks such as database monitoring, backups, restores, ad hoc queries, tuning and upgrades.
* Ability to travel up to 10% during the year.
Preferred:
* Experience with Open Source projects and the interaction with these types of communities for product assistance and reporting found issues (software defects).
* Prior exposure to database replication tools and techniques including replicating to read-only standbys and multi-master replicated environments across geographically dispersed areas.
* Familiarity with horizontally scaled database technologies to enable massively parallel processing (MPP) of loading and querying data such as EMC Greenplum, Informix XPS or DB2 pureScale.
* The ability to work in an Agile manner. Prior exposure to the Agile methodology of software development which includes iterative development, planning meetings and daily standup sessions.
* Familiarity with development tools such as Java, PHP and C/C++ is a plus.
* Familiarity with using source code control systems such as Mercurial, Subversion or CVS.
* Having a strong interest in the field of data management with the desire to constantly learn new concepts and technologies, including key/value NoSQL projects such as Hadoop, MongoDB, Riak, and others.
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