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16px;">My client, a leading provider of online grading and
originality services to educational institutions worldwide, is
looking for a senior Database Administrator to join their team
in Oakland, CA.<br>
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16px;">The company is profitable with stable growth. Located
in beautiful downtown Oakland, easy walking distance from
BART. Offer a friendly and fun atmosphere, quiet work
environment, flexible schedule, and other perks. <br>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;
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12px; min-height: 16px;">We are looking for a Senior
Database Administrator who thinks in clever ways to
solve problems of scale and load with elegant
solutions.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;
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12px; min-height: 16px;">Our database team supports
several Postgres databases up to 500+GB each over 50
database servers across four data centers. As a senior
member of this team, you will work closely with QA,
engineering, and project management to help us bring
automation, stability, and general awesomeness into
this architecture. </p>
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master-slave clusters utilizing streaming
replication (Slony a bonus, but not required)</li>
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architecture</li>
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schema additions and updates utilizing Liquibase</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
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experience administering PostgreSQL databases</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
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with automation tools such as CFEngine, Chef, or Puppet</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
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understanding of normal forms, and when to break them</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
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scripting skills</li>
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with Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Graphite or similar monitoring
tools</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
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drive a project from inception to completion</li>
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solving challenging problems</li>
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Degree or equivalent experience</li>
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Local candidates are strongly preferred. <br>
Sorry, we do not work with visas.<br>
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If interested, please contact me at
julia(at)braingainrecruiting(dot)com<br>
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<p>Thank you,<br>
Julia Tverskaya <br>
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtverskaya<br>
Partner, Brain Gain Recruiting<br>
http://braingainrecruiting.com/jobs/<br>
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