Database Administrator - Digital Domain - Vancouver or Montreal Canada

The visual effects studio Digital Domain is looking for a DBA that
specializes in PostgreSQL to eventually work in either our Vancouver or
Montreal, Canada offices.
https://digitaldomain.com/

Duration: Full Time Staff
Starts: immediately

Position Summary

The Core Software Team at Digital Domain is responsible for core tools and
services in use across our facilities, including asset, task, and software
management, dailies, analytics, and core Python libraries that underpin the
production of major feature films, commercials, television episodics, VR,
and more.

The Core Software DBA is responsible for collaborating with the rest of the
team on the designing, testing, planning, implementing, protecting,
operating, managing, and maintaining of Digital Domain’s numerous
databases, used company-wide by artists and software engineers on all of
our productions.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

* Provide guidance and support for appropriate database-driven service and
application design, helping the team achieve greater efficiency and
expressiveness for the systems which lie at the heart of our business.
* Take a leading role in schema design, code review, query tuning in our
Postgres centric environment
* Evaluate and refine current strategies for tuning, backup, scaling, and
upgrading Postgresql installations and deployments
* Collaborate with systems on appropriate provisioning and setup of the
underlying hardware
* Help standardize processes for working with databases over our products
life cycles

Qualifications

* B.S. or higher degree in Computer Science or related professional
experience
* Experience with key technologies, including Postgresql.
* Experience with NoSql Databases such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch a plus
* Professional experience in administering, managing, and tuning databases
* Good understanding of data and schema standards and concepts
* Good understanding of database design, implementation, troubleshooting,
and maintenance
* Expertise in SQL
* Experience with Python preferred

If you're interested, send your resume to our Senior Recruiter Amy Quek, at
aquek(at)d2(dot)com(dot) We love to hear from you!

Deke Kincaid | Director of Software | dkincaid(at)d2(dot)com |
O: 1.310.314.2918 | C: 1.310.883.4313|