Website Paymentology
Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator
As a SeniorPostgreSQL Database Administrator at Paymentology, you will be working closely with Infrastructure & Security team to provide support to the database environment of our enterprise-level, highly scalable, highly secure financial processing system that powers tens of millions of transactions using web, mobile and API interfaces, making it easy for people to issue, redeem and reconcile prepaid cards all over the world.
This role is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer who loves data, mathematics, software architecture, system architecture, and programming. Your focus will be split between supporting the current Postgres database environment while architecting, planning, and implementing the database environment migration to AWS (RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and potentially more).
What you get to do:
- Responsible for understanding operational requirements including hardware, architecting, configuring, integrating, and maintaining mission critical Production PostgreSQL databases
- Responsible for all backup, recovery, PITR replicating
- Experience on community supported tools like Pgbadger, Slony, PGadmin, Pgpool, Pgbouncer
- Clusters and upgrading/migrating various PostgreSQL database versions
- Database administration and tuning databases
- Develop database automation scripts and maintenance
- Provide technical guidance for integration, testing, design, development, planning of new production systems/databases
- Contribute to improving and creating DBA policies, procedures and standards
What it takes to succeed:
- 4+ years strong experience as DBA/PostgreSQL DBA
- 1+ Years of working with cloud / virtualisation technologies
- Experience in monitoring, managing and maintaining mission critical 24 by 7 production databases along with installation and configuration of database, implementing high-availability solutions, setup monitoring tools, setup database security, optimising resources, etc
- SQL query tuning hands on experience
- Should know any one scripting language (Python/shell/PowerShell)
- Good communication skills
- A willingness to roll up your sleeves, a service approach to leadership, a history of respect for all colleagues
- Excellent command over the English language
- A willingness to learn, a flexibility to adapt
- Highly competitive and strong work ethic
- Flexibility to work in Shifts and on weekends to support 24*7
- You are determined to achieve top-quality results in all projects you are working on.
- Confidence in taking on challenging conversations and situations collaborate with each area of the company to get to the best product for our users.
- Passion for the craft and love of technology and a self-starter.
- Support the core team and participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation to assist other engineers in resolving production-related issues.
To apply for this job please visit weworkremotely.com.
