Job Posting - PostgreSQL Administrator

What is the specific title of the position?
PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Is this person a sole contributor or part of a team?
part of a greater team

What are the top 5-10 responsibilities for this position?

1. Actively participate in all phases of project development life cycle including database policies, procedures, standards and supporting documentation, database design, process flow analysis, development, benchmark analysis, performance/tuning, capacity planning, and production implementation
2. Production support responsibilities include maximizing system availability, ensuring swift and complete database recovery, optimizing database and availability through ongoing maintenance, and ensure conformance to audit and operating standards
3. Participate in the evaluation, and recommendation of appropriate hardware and software resources. Develops pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends
4. Assisting with communication interfaces/integration to associated systems. Status reporting to Senior Leadership.

5. Design, implement and maintain all functions of database systems, including access, methods and time, device allocations, validation checks, organization, security, documentation, and statistical methodology.
6. Monitors overall standards and procedures, assists in integrating various systems. Consults with users, determine requirements and recommends database establishment and utilization

What software tools/skills are needed to perform these daily responsibilities?

What skills/attributes are a must have?
* Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience
* 7+ years of experience in the Information Technology profession
* Extension experience with RDBMS and PL/Sql
* Prior experience with data modeling and performance tuning
* Prior experience working with PostgreSQL or other Object Oriented databases
* Experience with designing complex database schemas within postgres

What skills/attributes are nice to have?

* Software Development experience
* Healthcare Industry experience
* Clinical experience
* Big Data Experience
* Database design

Where is the work to be performed? Cypress, CA preferred or MN
Please contact dtang(at)apexsystems(dot)com<mailto:dtang(at)apexsystems(dot)com> for more details.

Dillon Tang | Technical Recruiter | Apex Systems
4100 Newport Place Drive, Suite 410, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Office: 949.623.0003 | Fax: 949-623-0004
dtang(at)apexsystemsinc(dot)com<mailto:dtang(at)apexsystemsinc(dot)com> | www.apexsystems.com<http://www.apexsystems.com/>

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