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- Job Summary:
We are currently seeking a Database Engineer preferably with an interest in system design, integration and development. This position requires a creative person with great attention to detail, the ability to organize, prioritize, and work independently as well as a member of a team. This role will involve all aspects of database design and development as well as application testing and operations support. The candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding customer service skills, and a willingness to work hard. This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic, motivated candidate to join up with a small organization that actually gets things done and learn all aspects of a hosted integrated media management and optimization platform ! - Minimum requirements:
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
– 5+ years of relevant experience in related industries / technologies
– Superb analytic and troubleshooting skills
– Strong SQL skills (preferably Oracle).
– Programming experience (Java, PHP,C/C++)
– Unix / Linux scripting experience (Perl, Shell, Python)
– Excellent communication skills
– Success working in a fast-paced, dynamic and creative environment
- Position Responsibilities
– Assure the proper operation of the network, network servers, and attached infrastructure
– Configure and maintain physical and virtual servers (Cloud experience is must)
– Configure and maintain desktop computers
– Assure the information systems adhere to industry and company standards for security
– Maintain the building access and security systems
– Install, configure, and maintain OS
– Manage support vendors and service providers to optimize performance and minimize production interruptions
– Optimize or develop internal systems and applications to improve performance and data protection
– Other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned periodically by management - QualificationsEssential Skills and Abilities
– Ability to work independently
– Ability to analyze data and follow through with IT requirements
– Strong computer and networking skills (Cloud experience is must)
– Strong analytical, organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills
– Should able to configure all systems by himself. - Required Education and Experience
– Minimum Associates Degree in Information Systems; – – Bachelor’s Degree is Preferred
– Minimum of three years of experience in the Information Systems field and as a system administrator
Duties of the DBA:
– Analysis of existing database schemas and in use queries.
– Advise on changes needed to improve performance including index creation, query optimizations, schema changes, database configuration settings and storage.
– Spearhead efforts in database performance tuning and optimizations; coordinate with Dev and QA teams to perform necessary tasks.
– Implement proactive monitoring of all databases to predict and diagnose the majority of problems before they impact application performance or user experience.
– Develop and implement corrective measures for database issues/problems found during monitoring.
– Undertake periodic upgrades of database schema and perform testing and verification of released database schema upgrades.
– Review existing configurations and installations and provide design decisions for improvements to platform environments.
– Assist developers write better/optimized queries.
– Work with Dev and QA on large testing environments.Ideal Requirements of the DBA:
– A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science is preferred, however an equivalent combination of education, professional training and/or work experience may be substituted.
– 6+ years of experience including performance tuning of large-scale databases.
– Knowledge in designing and managing high availability environment.
– Demonstrated experience in architecting a large-scale production database platforms including warehouse solutions.
– Proficient with monitoring, collecting diagnostics and tuning Postgres as well as SQL tuning of large-scale databases for optimal performance.
– Advanced knowledge of SQL query execution, execution analysis & optimization, indexing strategies, etc.
– Experienced developers with strong skills in query tuning and analyzing explain plans.
– Advanced knowledge of PL/pgSQL, triggers and writing change scripts.
– Proficient with Postgres monitoring and alerting tools/processes.
– Ability to work independently and effectively in complex environments.
-Experience working with AWS/GCP/Azure.