
Database Administrator Lead - PostgreSQL
ABOUT Ashnik
Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.
THE POSITION
Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate people to be part of the team for an upcoming project at client location.
RESPONSIBILITIES
· Monitoring database performance
· Optimizing Queries and handle escalations
· Analyse and assess the impact and risk of low to medium risk changes on high profile production databases
· Implement security features
· DR implementation and switch over
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
· Preferably have a working experience of 4 Years and more , on production PostgreSQL DBs.
· Experience of working in a production support environment
· Engineering or Equivalent degree
· Passion for open-source technologies is desired
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
· Install & Configure PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB
· Technical capabilities PostgreSQL 9.x, 10.x, 11.x
· Server tuning
· Troubleshooting of Database issues
· Linux Shell Scripting
· Install, Configure and maintain Fail Over mechanism
· Backup - Restoration, Point in time database recovery
· A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.
· A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.
LOCATION: Bangalore & Mumbai
Experience: 7 yrs plus
Package: upto 20 LPA

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