Re: Junior DBA for Financial Services Company in Chicago, IL

The company I work for is currently seeking a Junior pgSQL
Database Administrator to join our technology team. A successful candidate
will learn how to administer, build, maintain, and optimize databases in
a fast paced financial services company. This is an excellent opportunity
for a motivated individual to join a growing organization.

Key Skills and Responsibilities:

* Ongoing support and administration of existing production, staging,QA and
development database environments
* Provide database support to ensure high availability and best sustainable
performance
* Review SQL code and implement all changes to the development
and production databases
* Work with development teams to optimize queries and stored procedures used
in custom applications
* Support back end for 3rd party applications (e.g. G/L, BI, CRM, etc.)

Requirements:

* 2+ years hands on Linux or Unix experience
* 2+ years of experience working with, in order of preference, one or more
of: EnterpriseDB, Kdb+, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server
* B.S. or equivalent education/work experience is required
* Basic understanding of relational database/schema design, SQL query and
stored procedure development and enhancement
* Ability to manage multiple, simultaneous issues
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Solid problem solving skills
* Basic scripting skills required; development experience a plus
* Strong desire to learn/administer/support EnterpriseDB/PostgreSQL/Kdb+

Please respond with a short introduction and resume, if I can comfortably
say you are a strong candidate after a brief e-mail conversation I would
love to refer/recommend you to our HR team for consideration.

Thanks,
Mark Petersen

Hi there!

I'm not terribly junior, but I would possibly be interested in this position
nonetheless if consideration of somebody with a significant amount of
experience would be considered. Assuming it paid a salary I found
acceptable, I would appreciate a position that kept me busy and allowed me
to build a deeper/broader amount of database knowledge, which it sounds like
this offers. I am currently located near Indianapolis, and while I'm
willing to move, a closer location is preferable over a more distant one,
which is another appealing factor.

If the position or related one is still available, I'd ask that you please
have a look at my resume, located at
http://casey.shobe.info/documents/resume/, and let me know if you would be
interested in talking about things further.

By the way, which company is this with? I have a feeling it may be one I
considered working for about a year and a half ago, when I ended up taking
the position in Indianapolis instead.

Best regards,
--
Casey Allen Shobe
casey(at)shobe(dot)info

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Mark Petersen <mark(at)mark-petersen(dot)net>wrote:

> The company I work for is currently seeking a Junior pgSQL
> Database Administrator to join our technology team. A successful candidate
> will learn how to administer, build, maintain, and optimize databases in
> a fast paced financial services company. This is an excellent opportunity
> for a motivated individual to join a growing organization.
>
> Key Skills and Responsibilities:
>
> * Ongoing support and administration of existing production, staging,QA and
> development database environments
> * Provide database support to ensure high availability and best sustainable
> performance
> * Review SQL code and implement all changes to the development
> and production databases
> * Work with development teams to optimize queries and stored procedures
> used in custom applications
> * Support back end for 3rd party applications (e.g. G/L, BI, CRM, etc.)
>
> Requirements:
>
> * 2+ years hands on Linux or Unix experience
> * 2+ years of experience working with, in order of preference, one or more
> of: EnterpriseDB, Kdb+, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server
> * B.S. or equivalent education/work experience is required
> * Basic understanding of relational database/schema design, SQL query and
> stored procedure development and enhancement
> * Ability to manage multiple, simultaneous issues
> * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
> * Solid problem solving skills
> * Basic scripting skills required; development experience a plus
> * Strong desire to learn/administer/support EnterpriseDB/PostgreSQL/Kdb+
>
> Please respond with a short introduction and resume, if I can comfortably
> say you are a strong candidate after a brief e-mail conversation I would
> love to refer/recommend you to our HR team for consideration.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Petersen
>

--
Casey Allen Shobe
casey(at)shobe(dot)info

Whoops, I didn't mean to CC the list on that last post, my apologies.

--
Casey Allen Shobe
casey(at)shobe(dot)info