Database Engineer-PostgreSQL

Requirement:

• Position:

Database Engineer (Aurora PostgreSQL Automation Engineer)

• Location:

Hyderabad (Onsite)

• Working Type: WFO
• Shift: UK Shift (2:00 – 11:00 PM)
• Experience : 7-10 years overall Job Description:

Job title : Database Engineer (Aurora PostgreSQL Automation Engineer) Location:

Hyderabad. Role Type : Full time (UK Shift)

Key Responsibilities

• Database Engineer is an Aurora PostgreSQL Database and Automation engineer and is responsible for supporting all aspects of the design, build, and support of the cloud database environments through automation. The Database Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the environments are performing optimally and align to best practices for security and resiliency.
• Database Engineering team designs and builds secure, resilient, recoverable, and reusable frameworks to support the entire database life cycle. The team focuses on continuous service improvements to increase the quality of service and speed of delivery.
• The Database Engineer is an Aurora PostgreSQL Database and Automation engineer and is responsible for supporting all aspects of the design, build, and support of the cloud database environments through automation. The Database Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the environments are performing optimally and align to best practices for security and resiliency.
• Support and manage the Aurora PostgreSQL database environments
• Automate the build and support tasks across database technologies (i.e. Oracle, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL)
• Adhere to best practices on Incident, Problem and Change management
• Lead projects independently with minimal guidance
• Responsible for managing and supporting Aurora PostgreSQL database platforms working closely with AWS, application support teams, and infrastructure teams
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain database instances on AWS
• Recommend and implement database security policies
• Recommend and implement database backup, recovery, and redundancy strategies
• Implement automated procedures to proactively handle issues and alerts
• Perform database performance analysis, capacity planning, system sizing and ongoing maintenance
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk and escalates appropriately
• Demonstrates reliability by taking necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals.
• Applies global perspective when working within a team by being aware of working styles and ensuring all relevant parties are involved in key team tasks and decisions
• Articulates information clearly and presents information effectively and confidently
• Thinks boldly and out of the box, generates new ideas and processes, and confidently pursues challenges as new avenues of opportunity.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience, with a minimum of 4 years of related PostgreSQL experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Manage large scale Aurora database environments.
• Strong knowledge on AWS cloud technologies as you will be responsible for managing and supporting Aurora PostgreSQL database platforms working closely with AWS, application support teams, and infrastructure teams. Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain database instances on AWS.
• Performance Tuning and Optimization skills including re-writing SQLs.
• Automation using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins
• Shell and Python scripting to automate tasks.
• AWS certification – a plus.