Job Title:  Manager | PostgreSQL DBA - Hybrid Cloud | Bengaluru | Engineering

Manager | Engineering, AI & Data – Engineering | PostgreSQL DBA

   Location:  Banaglore

The team

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Your work profile

• Providing round-the-clock database support, including handling incidents, requests, and changes.
• Automating regular patch deployments, installations, and other routine tasks.
• Designing and developing scalable database architectures to meet business requirements, along with recommending hardware and network solutions.
• Optimizing data storage, retrieval, and indexing for improved performance efficiency.
• Ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaboration with application developers, system administrators and other teams to enhance database operations and support.
• Use of Performance Monitor, optimizing queries, and tracing long-running queries, blockages, and deadlocks.
• Contribution towards automation of recurrent tasks.
• Ticket reduction through problem management.
• Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions
• Account management tasks include creating, deleting, and modifying profiles, as well as managing security and audit control parameters.
• Knowledgeable in index defragmentation, re-indexing, updating index statistics and query tuning.
• Proficient to manage DR and Resiliency strategies and underlying infrastructure architecture knowledge.
• Proficient in troubleshooting & solving complex performance problems.
• Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.
• team members.
• Proficient in managing migration other databases like MSSQL/Sybase/Oracle to PostgreSQL.

  Key skills required: 

• Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications.
• Experience on PG version – PG 12, PG 13, PG 14 & PG 15
• Excellent knowledge of PG RDBMS (all versions) architecture & design.
• Excellent knowledge of Architecture, Backup, Recovery (PITTR), Replication & Performance Tuning concepts.
• Experience in Backup and Recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL
• Experience in setting up WAL archiving, Point in Time Recovery
• Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions – REPMGR, PGBACKREST, pg_repack, pg_crypto, pg_audit, Data Wrapper, pg_bouncer,
• Good understanding of configuration files such as Pg_hba.Conf, Postgresql.Conf (with knowledge on Parameter values)
• Scripting knowledge using Ansibel and SHELL
• Proficient in troubleshooting & solving complex performance problems.
• Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.
• Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools
• Experience in handling Disaster Recovery tests & exercises.
• Certifications and experience of managing RDS for PostgreSQL on AWS
• Experience in working on a large-scale environment (at least 1000 + databases with bigger sizes).
• Working experience in banking domain (preferred).
• Expert knowledge of ITIL processes around Incident, Problem, Change, Quality Management and CSI.
• Exceptional coordination, communication and interpersonal skills to work across global teams and clients.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, diagnose and assess problems; work with global stakeholders to derive tactical and long-term solutions as appropriate.
• Demonstrable crisis management skills in a large, globally distributed environment.
• Experience working with or in an automated operation environment
• Experience managing operations on core & cloud-based infra environments – ‘AaS platform’ experience ideal.
• Certifications and experience of managing RDS for PostgreSQL on AWS
• Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions – REPMGR, PGBACKREST, pg_repack, pg_crypto, pg_audit, Data Wrapper, pg_bouncer
• Good understanding of configuration files such as Pg_hba.Conf, Postgresql.Conf.
• Experienced in backup and recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL, setting up WAL archiving, Point in Time Recovery
• Experience in Ansible, Shell / Perl / Python Scripting
• Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.
• Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools
• Education: Any Bachelors Degree