Cloud Database Administrator

Cloud Database AdministratorIndustry: Banking and Finance clientsLocation: Westlake TX, Boston MA, Durham NC, Merrimack NH, Jersey City NJ (Hybrid)Duration: Long Term projectTop Skills:PostgresSQLDynamoDBExpert 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 ArchitectureThe Expertise and Skills You Bring:An Authority in assessing Customer requirements and delivering appropriate cost optimized solutionsUnderstanding in concepts of RDBMS, Data Modeling and Performance TuningKnowledge in NOSQL Concepts, Modeling and Performance TuningExperience 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 BalancingExpert at DevOps and deployment technologies like Concourse, Jenkins/Jenkins Core, Terraform, uDeployA penchant for developing, instilling and adhering to standards and practices of governance for Database constructsA studious demeanor towards developing Automation for scaling of both Infrastructure, maintenance and expansion tasks using PYTHON/RUBY/SHELLAuthority on Database compute and storage sizing on AWS plus keen on continuous Cost Study and OptimizationProficient 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 plusGuide on Application Lifecycle tools like JIRA and Source Code Tools like BitBucket.Understanding of the Aurora Storage Architecture