Sunday, December 06, 2015

EchoStar - DBA

Summary:

Television is at an inflection point. New technologies and businesses are rapidly evolving and reshaping how we watch TV. We are Move Networks, makers of Sling TV, an OTT (over-the-top) TV service that delivers live U.S. and international programming, as well as video on demand, over the Internet. We are seeking a DBA to join our American Fork, Utah - based team. This is an exciting position in a fast moving project that requires the ability of candidates to hit the ground running. What we’re building is revolutionary and every employee participates in a profit sharing program. Come be a part of changing the face of TV!
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with others to determine and deploy database solutions to business-prioritized requirements, including business continuance and information security along with functional requirements.
• Install, configure, and test new PostgreSQL databases, perform version upgrades of existing databases.
• Install, upgrade and maintain all PostgreSQL-related server and administration software.
• Perform DB profiling and optimization; analyze and propose schema changes to PostgreSQL databases as needed.
• Proactively monitor activity, utilization, exceptions and database health; propose and deploy appropriate improvements; automate repetitive tasks.
• Collaborate with Operation team members to create, publish and maintain database deployment methods and procedures for PostgreSQL databases.
• Collaborate with the Engineering to create and maintain database technology roadmaps and recommend improvements to service being developed.
• Perform database backup and recovery duties; establish standards and schedules for database backups; develop and routinely test recovery procedures for each database; ensure that backup schedules meet the recovery requirements and conforms to all database and data quality policies and standards.
• Provide support to Operation on-call staff as needed.
• Implement and maintain archival and high availability strategies.
Basic Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience performing PostgreSQL administration in a production environment
• Experience should include three or more years of database administration in an enterprise level environment

Preferred Qualifications:
• Exceptional knowledge of the PostgreSQL database platform
• Mastery of physical database design
• Expertise in configuring, implementing and supporting high availability strategies with database systems including clustering, and replication
• Experience in with at least on scripting language such as Python, Bash, or similar
• Solution focused and methodical, careful attention to detail
• Solid background using UNIX operating systems such as Ubuntu Linux administration a plus‎