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.

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

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 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.

Responsibilities:

Setup and maintenance of postgres master-slave clusters utilizing streaming replication (Slony a bonus, but not required)
Cross-datacenter disaster recovery and backup architecture
Performance monitoring and optimization
Query optimization and troubleshooting
Close collaboration with engineering on schema additions and updates utilizing Liquibase
Participation in week-long on-call rotations

QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience administering PostgreSQL databases
Experience with automation tools such as CFEngine, Chef, or Puppet
Thorough understanding of normal forms, and when to break them
Solid scripting skills
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

Local candidates are strongly preferred.
Sorry, we do not work with visas.

If interested, please contact me at julia@braingainrecruiting.com

Thank you,
Julia Tverskaya
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtverskaya
Partner, Brain Gain Recruiting
http://braingainrecruiting.com/jobs/