PostgreSQL Database Administrator

vor 3 Wochen


Zurich, Schweiz Luxoft Vollzeit

**Project** Description**:
You'll be part of the Database team with strong focus on On-Prem PostgreSQL, Oracle and Microsoft Azure environment. You will get experience from very large database environment and you can play key role to migrate the database to the cloud. Database Team provides database solution, administration and database road map for more than 25000 databases (Oracle, Azure, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Sybase) for the organization globally. We maintain very large databases (350TB largest) and implemented many proven database technologies like Data Guard, Always On, Real Application Cluster, Goldengate, Patroni, Oracle Enterprise Manager, OID, etc. to support high availability and BCM resiliency.

**Responsibilities**:

- Be responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of Database Products managed by Hosting Services.
- Automate the TOIL for efficiency, enhance customer experience on delivery of the Database Services and reduce MTTR on any outages.
- Minimize the risk and impact of failures by engineering operational improvements, such as predictive monitoring, auto scaling or self-healing
- Respond to production incidents to gain first-hand experience of operational hotspots and to identify the root causes of problems
- Taking part in on-call duties, operations, software development, and support, gaining substantial historical knowledge to ensure a seamless flow of information between teams.
- Collect and analyze operational data, define and monitor key metrics to identify and communicate areas for improvement
- Ensuring that Ops professionals and product managers are reviewing incidents and documenting the findings to enable informed decision-making.
- Based on post-incident reviews, will need to optimize overall process of delivery, monitoring and controls to boost service reliability.
- Learn new technologies and practices, reuse strategic platforms and standards, evaluate options, and make decisions with long-term sustainability in mind
- Work in an agile way as part of multi-disciplinary teams, participate in agile ceremonies, and collaborate with engineers and product managers.
- Share knowledge and expertise with colleagues, help with hiring, and contribute regularly to our engineering culture and internal communities

**Skills**:
Must have
- 5+ years technical experience in RDBMS - strong focus on PostgreSQL / PATRONI, Oracle, on hybrid infrastructure including Public Cloud
- Administration and provisioning
- Performance Tuning and Capacity Management
- Backup, DR, Replication and HA
- Good understanding of cloud computing
- Experience with common SRE tools such as Configuration, Alerting, Observability
- Hands-on experience on writing automation script using Python / Golang, PowerShell / Bash, etc. for on-premise as well as Public Cloud workloads
- Familiar with infrastructure as code tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM)
- Familiar with Azure Automation, Function or equivalent tools in other Cloud Platforms
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Self-driven, passionate professional with mínimal need of supervision

Nice to have
- Experience with the software development life cycle, CI/CD, GIT, and code build pipelines. Hands-on experience on Gitlab is an added advantage
- Experience on Azure Cloud Databases is an added advantage
- Nice to have BS degree (in Computer Science or related area) or an equivalent

**Languages**:
English: C1 Advanced

**Seniority**:
Regular

**Relocation package**:
If needed, we can help you with relocation process.

Vacancy Specialization

Database Administration

Ref Number

VR-98051



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