Database Consultant opportunity at EnterpriseDB - full time

Database Consultant

Job Location:
Bedford, MA preferred, but willing to let right candidate work out of a
home office any where in the US with practical access to air travel.

PostgreSQL is a rapidly growing open source database project, and
EnterpriseDB is at the forefront of making PostgreSQL successful in
enterprises of all sizes. Key to making our customers successful is a
world class consulting organization. We are looking to hire great
people to keep up with the pace of our customers.

We are looking for a customer facing person who can work on site and
remotely with clients to deliver EnterpriseDB technical services. This
includes understanding their business, developing recommendations,
coding, and delivering training where appropriate. The ideal candidate
has a strong blend of people skills and in depth knowledge of database
deployments. Communication skills, both written and verbal are as
important as technical skills. In addition to delivering technical
services, this person in this role will provide feedback to sales and
sales engineering for new business opportunities, as well as working
with development engineering on helping to define the evolution of our
products. This position requires significant travel. Interested
candidates should send their resume and contact information to
careers(at)enterprisedb(dot)com <mailto:careers(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> and
martin(dot)knutson(at)enterprisedb(dot)com <mailto:tom(dot)kincaid(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>.

Job Responsibilities:

- Evaluate customer deployments of PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus and
Postgres Plus Advanced Server and make recommendations on how to improve
them.
- Support customers in the development of custom Postgres-based
applications
- Deliver PostgreSQL Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Advanced
Server courses over the web and on site.
- Perform database Migrations from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL to
PostgreSQL
- Performance tune and make performance tuning recommendations to
existing database deployments
- Set up High Availability configurations using PostgreSQL

A qualified candidate must:

- Have a Bachelor or Masters of Science in Computer
Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
- At least two years of DBA level experience for PostgreSQL or Oracle
- Be well versed in SQL
- Be familiar with database design and building applications for
PostgreSQL, Oracle, or other databases
- General system administration and performance skills for Linux
(Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat, or Debian), including facility with scripting.

Working knowledge of MS Windows.

- Must be a US citizen
- Must be able to travel up to 60%+
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience in any of the following is highly desirable:

- Working directly with customers
- Have experience deploying open source software
- Working with virtual teams and from remote office locations
- Experience with programming languages like C, PHP, python, Java
or Ruby.