Melbourne, Aus job: Postgres Systems/Database Admin (>25 databases 80TB data)

Hi,

I work for a $ 200 mn Software Solutions and staffing company in NJ. One
of our direct client has the following requirement for US Citizens, GC
and EAD holders as follow, if u think u r a good fit, pl call me at 848
248 2136.
THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE REQUIREMENT !!!

Pls note selection process:

1) Telephonic interview

2) Compulsory In person interview in NY City (hence preferably look at
local candidates)

v No of Positions : 1

v Type (C2H/Full Time): C2H or Fulltime

Position Title- Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

v Location- NY city( 5 mins walk from Penn station)

v Rate / Constraints if any -

a)If selected for C2H : 3 months contract ( 45$/hr)

around 90- 100K (Based on experience)

v Tentative Start Date - Immediate

v Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

Description

Client is seeking a senior DBA to work as a member of the Operations
team and serve as the primary authority for the schema
development/maintenance, operation, monitoring, performance,
availability, tuning, backup, and recovery of its application's MS SQL
Server 2005 and PostGreSQL DBMS and associated systems -- in its
development, staging, and production environments. This position
reports to the VP of Operations and Corporate IT.

Duties

* Work with the development team in the design, maintenance, and
documentation of database schemas including evaluation of: data design,
(de)normalization, referential integrity, query design, indexing
strategies, and deployment.
* Work with Quality Assurance Team to provide support for test
approaches for database related changes as needed.
* Coordinate with other Operations team members to establish
requirements for capacity planning, deployment, and operational needs.
* Establishing policies and procedures pertaining to the
management, security, maintenance, and use of the DBMS consistent with
corporate policies and industry best practices.
* Implement effective use of database replication, load balancing,
and other configuration items to support capacity plan and performance
goals in line with client SLAs.
* Construct/execute ad-hoc queries to assist in the maintenance
and troubleshooting of operational issues, or as needed to support
development of applications, reporting, and analytics.
* Design and implement strategies for database load and stress
testing.
* Serve as technical representative for data related issues as
needed in client interchanges.
* Stay abreast of emerging technologies and new database
design/deployment approaches.
* Maintain run-books and run-logs for database systems.
* Available on-call during off-hours to resolve database issues as
needed to support 24/7 operations including communication with host
providers to resolve configuration and operational issues.

Requirements:

* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related degree, or
equivalent experience plus 8-10+ years with database design,
development, and/or architecture.
* 3-5 years experience as DBA on MS SQL Server in high performance
enterprise OLTP/OLAP application environments.
* Strong experience with isolation levels, locks, SQL Server
performance tuning, and optimization.
* Detailed knowledge of Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and Stored
Procedures.
* Experience with database replication configuration and
deployment.
* Experience with capacity planning - including effective
measurement and usage of bandwidth, disk space, memory and cache
servers.
* Experience with managing hardware configurations and
considerations for SQL Server environments.
* Knowledge of using various tools to identify and monitor
database performance metrics.
* Strong oral and written communication skills, excellent
organizational skills and attention to detail.
* Able to work effectively across a diverse team.
* Strong problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

Pluses:

* Detailed knowledge of PostGreSQL.
* Experience with Memcached or other caching systems.
* Understanding of software development life-cycle, and
specifically consumer-facing web development.
* NHibernate and/or Hibernate.
* .NET and/or JDBC Database programming.
* Experience with Windows/ASP.NET/C# based database programming.
* Experience with Java/Linux based database programming.

Vikas S

Marlabs Inc.

Voice: 732-287-7800 ext 1428

Mob: - 848 248 2136

Fax: 732-783-0375

vikas(at)marlabs(dot)com <mailto:s(at)marlabs(dot)com>

www.marlabs.com <blocked::http://www.marlabs.com/>

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The database is at the heart of this company and are mission critical
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The role includes the following responsibilities:

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• Implementing database replication
• Executing database backups
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• Is highly responsive and customer focused with a "mission-critical"
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• Is a tenacious problem solver
• Gets along well with the other people on the team
• Has initiative, is responsible and reliable
• Clear communication skills

If you are passionate about database technology and want to work at an
exciting, technology focused company in a team of highly technical
people, then this may be the role for you.

This is a salaried role.
People currently living in Australia preferred for this role but you
are welcome to apply if you are outside Australia - we'll have a look.

Apply now!

To apply, send your resume to info(at)flatraterecruitment(dot)com(dot)au and
include "postgres" in the subject line

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The core product of this company is an information service analysing
huge quantities of data. Gathering, processing and storing data is a
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efficiently is one of the companies key challenges.

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A new role has been created for a Systems/Database Administrator to
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The database is at the heart of this company and are mission critical
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The role includes the following responsibilities:

• Ensuring the uptime of the production databases
• Working closely with a team of 50 developers, testers and
systems administrators
• Ensuring optimum database performance
• Building new database servers and systems
• Tuning databases and systems
• Implementing database replication
• Executing database backups
• Managing database security
• Managing database users and access control
• Advising developers on database related issues
• Strong SQL
• Scripting – any of shell, Python, plpgsql (DB procedural
languages)
• Linux or Unix knowledge
• Monitoring of operational systems

We're looking for someone who:

• Loves their work and is passionate about technology and databases
• Is highly responsive and customer focused with a "mission-
critical" uptime attitude
• Is a tenacious problem solver
• Gets along well with the other people on the team
• Has initiative, is responsible and reliable
• Clear communication skills

If you are passionate about database technology and want to work at an
exciting, technology focused company in a team of highly technical
people, then this may be the role for you.

This is a salaried role.
People currently living in Australia preferred for this role but you
are welcome to apply if you are outside Australia - we'll have a look.

Apply now!

To apply, send your resume to info(at)flatraterecruitment(dot)com(dot)au
IMPORTANT: include "Postgres DBA" in the subject line
www.flatraterecruitment.com.au