Title: Lead System Engineer - PostgreSQL

Location: Bangalore/Chennai

Exp: 8 – 10 Years

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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.

Mandatory Skills and Experience

- 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 Ansibel 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.
- Demonstrable crisis management skills in a large, globally distributed setting.
- Experience working with or in an automated operations environment
- Experience managing operations on core & cloud-based infra environments – 'AaS platform' experience ideal.

Preferred Education, Skills and Experience:

- 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
- Good 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

📌 Lead System Engineer - PostgreSQL (Bengaluru)
🏢 NR Consulting
📍 Bengaluru