Full-Time Senior PostgreSQL Support Engineer

A Little About Us

EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com

Based in India, the successful candidate will join our Support Services team and will be responsible for maintaining and managing client’s Postgres databases; working as an extension of the clients in house DBA team providing guidance, execution and follow best practices.

Our team deliver effective database services to clients, while observing industry-standard security policies and tools. Engineers are required to work on varied OS platforms, versions of Postgres and HA solutions. Developing solutions for monitoring and resolving/performing proactive actions to prevent outages are a key responsibility.

What your impact will be - 

• Responsible for understanding operational requirements including hardware, architecting, configuring, integrating, and maintaining mission-critical Production PostgreSQL databases.
• Responsible for all backup, recovery, PITR replicating
• Experience on community-supported tools like Pgbadger, Slony, PGadmin, Pgpool, Pgbouncer.
• Clusters and upgrading/migrating various PostgreSQL database version.
• Database administration and tuning databases
• Develop database automation scripts and maintenance.
• Provide technical guidance for integration, testing, design, development, planning of new production systems/databases
• Contribute to improving and creating DBA policies, procedures and standards.

What you will bring - 

• Must have 5 to 10 years of strong experience in PostgreSQL DBA / Support
• Hands on experience in Postgresql architecture, backup and replication methods
• 2 + Years of working with cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Hands-on experience in virtualization technologies (Kubernetes / Docker)
• Hands-on experience on Shell scripting & SQL query tuning
• Experience in monitoring, managing and maintaining mission-critical 24x7 production databases along with installation and configuration of the database, implementing high-availability solutions, setup monitoring tools, setup database security, optimizing resources, etc.
• Good communication skills to handle diverse stakeholders
• Good to have: Experience on EnterpriseDB products and Certifications (OCP certifications)

What will give you an edge - 

• Graduate in B.E/B.Tech or equivalent
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves, a service approach to leadership, a history of respect for all colleagues
• Excellent command over the English language
• A willingness to learn, a flexibility to adapt
• Highly competitive and strong work ethic
• Flexibility to work in Shifts and on weekends (if required)