Infrastructure Engineer with Postgres Experience

Position: Infrastructure Engineer with Postgres Experience

Location: Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid 3 Days/Week Onsite)

Duration: Permanent or Long-Term Contract

Job Description

• Help chart the course for database technology at Client! We need top technical talent to supplement our Database Engineering team.
• This team selects the operational database technologies Client will use, and figures out how best to set them up.
• We define, design, implement, test, and communicate the architectures, configurations, best practices, and standards for optimal use of database technologies across the company, both on-prem and in the cloud.
• We evaluate new and upgraded database versions, features, components and extensions for performance, throughput, scalability, availability, and security; and we partner with our hosting, database administration, and operational support teams to operationalize and harden OLTP technology for our top-tier financial applications.
• This specific posting is for a software/infrastructure engineer with experience in installing, configuring, patching, upgrading, deploying and running Postgres databases.
• The candidate will put these skills to use by evaluating and preparing new and upgraded Postgres and Postgres-compatible offerings for use across the company, and by documenting, presenting and explaining the appropriate techniques, patterns and best practices for our hosting, database administration and operational support teams.
• The candidate will bring solid knowledge of DBMS concepts such as ACID, CAP and consistency. The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprise-scale Postgres deployments, including intra- and inter-data-center high availability configurations, fault tolerance and failover, physical and logical replication, cluster management, automated provisioning, rolling upgrade techniques, backup & restoration techniques, security mechanisms, health monitoring and alerting techniques, and troubleshooting.
• The candidate will also bring knowledge of Postgres internals such as durability and replication settings, and performance tuning.

Additional desirable attributes

• Skill at the Unix command line
• The ability to write code or script, e.g. for test harnesses or other database-related tools and utilities
• Experience as a database administrator and/or a Unix system administrator
• Knowledge of virtualization and cloud infrastructures, and of implementations such as VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker
• Knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or other public cloud offerings
• Knowledge of modern storage and compute technologies, including hyper-converged infrastructures
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.