Cloud Database Administrator

Cloud Database Administrator

Location: Westlake TX, Boston MA, Durham NC, Merrimack NH, Jersey City NJ (Hybrid)

Duration: Long Term Project

Top Skills:

• PostgresSQL
• DynamoDB
• Expert at DevOps and deployment technologies like Concourse, Jenkins/Jenkins Core, Terraform, uDeploy (putting infrastructure in as code – using Jenkins to run through) InDepth Understanding of the Aurora Storage Architecture

The Expertise and Skills You Bring:

• An authority in assessing customer requirements and delivering appropriate cost optimized solutions
• Understanding in concepts of RDBMS, Data Modeling and Performance Tuning
• Knowledge in NOSQL Concepts, Modeling and Performance Tuning
• Experience in Database Administrator for cloud database platforms – Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB (AWS certification is encouraged)
• PGPL/SQL expertise is a must.
• Good understanding of connection pooling and load balancing
• Expert at DevOps and deployment technologies like Concourse, Jenkins/Jenkins Core, Terraform, uDeploy
• A penchant for developing, instilling and adhering to standards and practices of governance for Database constructs
• A studious demeanor towards developing automation for scaling of both infrastructure, maintenance and expansion tasks using PYTHON/RUBY/SHELL
• Authority on database compute and storage sizing on AWS plus keen on continuous cost study and optimization
• Proficient in AWS concepts and services like IAM, SSO, KMS/CMK, PG, PHZ, VPC, Route53, RDS, RDS-Proxy, Lambda, S3, EBS, CloudWatch, DMS, etc.
• Awareness of supporting technologies like DataDog, PGBouncer, Hikari would be a plus
• Guide on application lifecycle tools like JIRA and source code tools like BitBucket
• Understanding of the Aurora Storage Architecture