PostgreSQL Guru wanted (anywhere|remote|contract|employee)

Job Description
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Sharada has immediate need for a seasoned PostgreSQL expert to lead a number of key initiatives.

The ideal candidate possesses hands-on, in-depth knowledge and experience in all facets of Postgres including but not limited to day-to-day administration and troubleshooting, performance tuning, query optimization, storage, partitioning, replication, physical design, foreign data wrappers, security and analytics.
Skills & Requirements

Required:
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Proven field experience supporting and administering a non-trivial PG installation in a production environment.
Can configure PG databases from scratch for various use cases and end applications
Solid knowledge of PG backup and replication best practices, procedures and tools.
Advanced knowledge of SQL in general and PL/pgSQL in specific.
Knowledge of various approaches to PG replication and their tradeoffs.
Firm grasp of PG security, both authentication and authorization.
Ability to tune PG extensively depending on application requirements.
Able to suggest table indexes or view materialization to improve performance of important and frequent queries.
Approaches to sharding, partitioning and clustering PG.
Experience in PG EXPLAIN/execution plan analysis
Very comfortable in a Linux environment.
Knowledge of all RAID levels and advantages/disadvantages of each.

Optional:
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Shell, Python, or Perl
Networking, OSI layers, standard protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP.
SANs, LUNs, iSCSI, block-level mirroring/replication, clustering.
Docker or LXD
LDAP, Kerberos, Samba
NoSQL, BigData
OLAP, Cubes
Normal forms, star and snowflake schemas

About Sharada Capital Management
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Sharada Capital Management is a small but successful proprietary trading firm specializing in listed and over-the-counter FX instruments. We rely on technology and automation for everything from algorithmic spot trading to real-time risk management across our diverse portfolio of assets. We are actively seeking qualified candidates to spearhead greenfield, cutting-edge technology initiatives and build out our state-of-the-art platform.

Even More About Us
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If you want to learn more about us, please visit our company page and this job posting on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/sharada-capital-management-llc
http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/115716/postgresql-guru-sharada-capital-management