Postgre SQL DBA

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Position: PostgreSQL DBA – Senior Consultant (5-10 years)

Position Summary:

The PostgreSQL DBA Consultant/Senior Consultant is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The PostgreSQL DBA will be responsible for deploying and managing large environments with strong technical expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Advise the customer on best practices.

• Hands-on experience in participating in upgrades & migrations for customers.

• Ensure timely entry of tasks, maintaining updates within 24 hours.

• Advise customers on hardware and licensing questions.

• Ensure that customers have appropriate maintenance in place, including backups, index maintenance, and routine vacuuming.

• Hands-on performance tuning.

• Continue to learn new skills involved in being a PostgreSQL DBA as the technology evolves.

• Keep up to date with new releases of PostgreSQL and advise customers on relevant aspects.

• Ensure compliance with data protection legislation under the DPA, EU GDPR, and any other applicable data protection legislation.

Qualifications:

• College degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

• More than 2.5 years of relevant experience working with PostgreSQL databases & servers.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Implement best practices on PostgreSQL Databases and Servers.

• Interface and communicate with customers and other internal departments.

• Participate in an on-call rotation.

• Hands-on experience with installation and configuration of PostgreSQL.

• Maintain documentation with processes and procedures.

• Implement/support Log Shipping, Failover Solutions, and Replication.

• Flexible to work in rotational shifts.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

• Motivated to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.

• Ability to multi-task and work across projects and clients.

NAVISITE - Part of Accenture, is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Navisite does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Internal Applicants – No sponsorship available / External Applicants – Sponsorship not guaranteed. Any potential sponsorship depends on a number of factors, including but not limited to the local candidate pool and can vary from year to year.

You must ensure compliance with data protection legislation under the DPA, EU GDPR, any other ​applicable ​data protection legislation​.