PostgreSQL Administrator

PostgreSQL DBC

Remote| India | #LI-Remote

Available Shifts

Morning - 6 AM - 3 PM IST

Why you?

Are you a PostgreSQL who lives in India (any location)? Are you community minded? Do you blog, contribute to the Open Source community? Are you inspired by ever-shifting challenges, constant growth and collaboration with a team of peers who push you constantly to up your game? At Pythian, we are actively shaping what it means to be an open-source database engineer and administrator, and we want you to be a part of the world’s top team of MongoDB, Cassandra, and MySQL professionals.

What will you be doing?

• As a PostgreSQL Consultant (DBC) you will work as part of Pythian's open source team and supply complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of our customers. 
• Our collaborative environment means everyone works together to solve complex puzzles and develop innovative solutions for our customers. 
• You'll work closely with the customer teams to understand their needs, in both a project based and long term support capacity.
• You'll create and document database standards, create optimized queries, indexes, and data structure.
• Monitor and support database environments and serve as an escalation point for complex troubleshooting and interactive production support.
• Use database vendor provided tools and Pythian developed accelerators to performance tune various database system, specific queries and applications scenarios.
• Diagnose and address database performance issues using performance monitors and various tuning techniques.
• Identify areas of opportunity and recommend appropriate improvement suggestions.
• Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.
• When you're not fixing things, you'll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, creating new articles in our customer facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things like participating in conferences and meetups promoting Pythian to the open source community.

What do we need from you?

• While we understand you might not have everything on the list, to be the successful candidate for the PostgreSQL & MySQL job you are likely to have skills such as;
• Knowledge and experience in installing, configuring and upgrading PostgreSQL & MySQL databases & tools relevant in PostgreSQL Administration.
• Experience administering PostgreSQL & MySQL in virtualized and cloud environments, especially AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with scripting (bash/python) and software development (C++, Java, Go)
• Automation technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, SALT experience.
• Previous remote working experience a plus.
• Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues
• Very good documentation skills.
• Nice to haves include; Understanding of current IT service standards such as ITIL. Being a contributor to Open Source projects relevant to PostgreSQL, MySQL or other database or infrastructure software.

What do you get in return?

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards and salary package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
• Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
•  Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
•  Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
• Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.

Why Pythian

Pythian excels at helping businesses use data, analytics, and cloud to transform how they compete and win by delivering advanced on-prem, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud solutions. In the early years, we focused on supporting mission-critical operational databases, and as our experts became known for their ability to solve the toughest data challenges, our services grew to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients; expanding from on-premise to the cloud and from operational to analytics data systems. 

A powerful combination of extensive expertise in data and cloud, as well as our ability to keep ahead of the latest bleeding-edge technologies, makes us the perfect partner. We help mid- and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy. 

We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver innovative solutions that meet the specific data goals of each client and have built meaningful partnerships with major cloud vendors AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Oracle. 

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Disclaimer

For this job an equivalent combination of education and experience, which results in demonstrated ability to apply skills will also be considered.

Pythian is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in their country of residence permanently– Pythian will not relocate, sponsor, or file petitions of any kind on behalf of a foreign worker to gain a work visa, become a permanent resident based on a permanent job offer, or to otherwise obtain authorization to work.

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