Sr DBA for Tunritin - Oakland

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We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator who thinks in
clever ways to solve problems of scale and load with elegant
solutions. Our database team supports several postgres databases up to
550 GB each over 50 database servers in three data centers. An ideal
candidate thrives in a collaborative scrum team, and has a cooperative
nature. As a senior member of this team, you will work closely with
QA, engineering, and project management to help us improve automation,
stability, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

-Setup and maintenance of postgres clusters utilizing streaming replication

-Cross-datacenter disaster recovery and backup architecture

-Performance monitoring and optimization

-Query optimization and troubleshooting

-Close collaboration with engineering on schema changes

-Participation in on-call rotations

Requirements:

-8+ years of experience administering PostgreSQL databases

-Experience with automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, or CFEngine

-Experience with PgBouncer and HAProxy

-Thorough understanding of normal forms, and when to break them

-Solid scripting skills in one or more of: Bash, Perl, Python or Go

-Experience with Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Graphite or similar monitoring tools

-Ability to drive a project from inception to completion

-Enthusiasm for solving challenging problems

-Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience

-Excellent communication skills

Bonus Points For:

-Slony

-Postgres 9.x upgrade experience

-Experience with Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, etc.

-Participation in the postgres community: meetups, cons, etc.