Database Administrator (DBA) Opportunity at Rentrak!

Do you...

- Have a passion for solving technical problems, from bottleneck
analysis to collaboratively tuning the application stack?
- Enjoy providing support and advice for developers writing
applications
that access the databases?
- Have a strong DBA foundation and ready to develop your experience
on
Postgres?
- Want to build and manage solutions that provide infrastructure for
deploying, managing, and maintaining terabytes of databases?
- Prefer to understand how something works, versus simply being
content
with knowing it does work?

Team members of Rentrak's Infrastructure Systems Group design and
support
mission-critical high-up-time systems running a complex application
stack
for each business vertical. Our work group functions as a highly
collaborative cross-trained unit. While your primary focus will be on
Database management using Postgres, you will also get to cultivate and
apply skills ranging from system configuration management to software
development.

As administrators of the central technical infrastructure for the
company,
we place a strong emphasis on providing excellent customer service to a
broadly defined range of customers, including our internal users,
developers, operators, business managers, and external clients. If you
are
looking to be an invisible cog in the machine, look elsewhere; if you
are
ready to make a difference to your coworkers and earn your daily thanks,
come join us!

The ideal candidate...

Combines a number of technical skills and experience across several IT
disciplines, such as:

- Database operation, diagnosis, tuning, and troubleshooting (primary
job functions)
- Software development support (for interfacing with developers,
nothing
beats having walked in the other guy's shoes)
- Configuration management (for automating some types of
deploy/maintenance work)
- System and performance analysis, in both physical and virtual
environments
- Recovery planning, from the database to the application

and must also present strong soft skills for a team-oriented
environment:

- Excellent customer service
- Holistic problem solving
- Sense of responsibility and follow-through
- Can-do attitude
- Enough experience and maturity to enjoy getting to shed
turf-guarding,
rejoice that you are not expected to know everything, and get
straight
problem-solving within a cross-functional team
- Great common sense, can laugh and cry with team.

Responsibilities:

- Care and feeding of database systems, primarily Postgres, some
Oracle
and SQL Server.
- Must have or be willing to learn new technologies and process.
- Work with development teams to design, implement, troubleshoot,
monitor, and improve corporate projects.
- Be a project owner.

Required Skills:

- 1- 5 years relevant experience.
- Experienced Linux user.
- Database administration (Postgres strongly preferred), including:
installation, initialization, authentication, catalog navigation,
query
tuning, system tuning, resource contention analysis, backup and
recovery,
standby, replication, etc.
- Database operation, to support developers in making scalable
decisions
in schema design and data processing models.
- Some experience Perl and/or Bash is HIGHLY desirable.

Rentrak is a global media measurement and research company, providing
content measurement, analytical services and unique insight to the most
recognizable names in the entertainment industry.

Rentrak headquarters are located in beautiful Portland, Oregon, near
scenic
mountains, beaches, and rivers. Our office has convenient access to
public
transportation and the freeway.

We offer a friendly team oriented workplace and our benefits are among
the
best in the business including matching 401K program, medical, dental,
vision, disability and life insurance, wellness programs, tuition
reimbursement, an extremely generous vacation package and more.

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Rentrak Corporation proudly supports Affirmative Action. Rentrak
Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent
upon successful completion of background investigation and
pre-employment drug screen. Rentrak participates in eVerify.

*No recruiters or agencies please.

Please use the following link to apply:

https://apply.hrmdirect.com/ResumeDirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.aspx?req_id=enc-15.777380191267773&source=124067-CS-4217

We look forward to hearing from you!

*Kristina M Palmer*| Recruiting Intern, Human Resources

o *503.284.7581x459* | *kristina(dot)palmer(at)rentrak(dot)com*
*RENTRAK* | www.rentrak.com | NASDAQ: RENT

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