Job Summary

Role / Job Summary:
Postgres DBA L3 accountable & responsible for handling global database operations. Candidates must be willing to work in rotational shifts.
Location: Bangalore/Chennai
Years of Experience: 8 - 10 years

Key Responsibilities

- Own 24*7 database support; handling Incidents, Requests, Problems & Changes.
- Handle on-call database support during week-ends & out of business hours.
- Own & deliver various client & infra projects.
- Plan & deliver various projects around database patching, upgrades & migrations.
- Management of various tools/scripts being used for databases.
- Managing Primary DBA roles for multiple applications.
- Contribution towards automation of recurrent tasks.
- Ticket reduction through problem management.
- Manage disaster recovery tests & exercises.
- Identify & deliver various POCs (Proof of concepts) for latest RDBMS features, open source & new technologies.
- Work closely with application teams to provide solutions across various requirements & problems.
- Proactively identify the problems and provide solutions to avoid incidents & application outages.
- Work with other infra teams to optimize databases performance and reduce incidents probability.

Skill Requirements

- Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications.
- Experience on PG version - PG 12, PG 13, PG 14 & PG 15.
- Excellent knowledge of PG RDBMS (all versions) architecture & design.
- Excellent knowledge of Architecture, Backup, Recovery (PITTR), Replication & Performance Tuning concepts.
- Experienced in backup and recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL, setting up WAL archiving, Point in Time Recovery.
- Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions - REPMGR, PGBACKREST,



pg_repack, pg_crypto, pg_audit, Data Wrapper, pg_bouncer.
- Good understanding of configuration files such as Pg_hba.conf, Postgresql.conf (with knowledge on Parameter values).
- Scripting knowledge using Ansible and SHELL.
- Proficient in troubleshooting & solving complex performance problems.
- Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.
- Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools.
- Experience in handling Disaster Recovery tests & exercises.
- Certifications and experience of managing RDS for PostgreSQL on AWS.
- Experience in working on a large-scale environment (at least 1000+ databases with bigger sizes).
- Working experience in banking domain (preferred).
- Expert knowledge of ITIL processes around Incident, Problem, Change, Quality Management and CSI.
- Exceptional coordination, communication and interpersonal skills to work across global teams and clients.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze, diagnose and assess problems; work with global stakeholders to derive tactical and long-term solutions as appropriate.

Other Requirements

- Certifications and experience of managing RDS for PostgreSQL on AWS.
- Hands-on experience of using tools/extensions - REPMGR, PGBACKREST, pg_repack, pg_crypto, pg_audit, Data Wrapper, pg_bouncer.
- Valuable understanding of configuration files such as Pg_hba.conf, Postgresql.conf.
- Experienced in backup and recovery using PG_DUMP and PG_DUMPALL, setting up WAL archiving, Point in Time Recovery.
- Experience in Ansible, Shell / Perl / Python Scripting.
- Proficient in managing Patching, Upgrades & Migrations.
- Proficient in monitoring & performance analysis through open source tools.

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