PostgreSQL DBA
The Panther Group is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for a well known client within the insurance industry's database systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines.
You have
In-depth knowledge and troubleshooting skills in the following:
Must have skills:
•            10+ years of PostgreSQL DBA experience
•            PostgreSQL replication experience
•            SQL coding and tuning experience
•            Shell scripting and automation experience
•            PostgreSQL PGAdmin client connectivity tool experience
•            AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora
•            Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
•            Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience
•            Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
•            Ability to assess and improve SQL performance
•            Understanding of PostgreSQL’s underlying storage engines
•            Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
•            Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
•            Expert level PostgreSQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
•            Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
•            Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
•            Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
•            Strong communication skills, both oral and written
•            Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
•            Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
•            Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving
•            Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules
Desired skills:
•            Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
•            Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
•            Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus
•            Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
•            Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs
•            Bachelor’s Degree or similar required
You will:
•            Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes
•            Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause
•            Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements
•            Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution
•            Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets
•            Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles
•            Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance
•            Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
•            Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses
•            Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc
Location: Bethlehem, PA or Holmdel, NJ. Local candidates preferred. The Database Service is scheduled to work Monday through Friday 8:00 AM ET till 5:00 PM ET. Currently candidates are working 3-days remote and 2-days in the office -operate on a 24x7x365 using an on-call rotation which the candidate will be a part of.