Senior Database Administrator, PostgreSQL

Senior Database Administrator, PostgreSQL

BengaluruOracle / Postgresql – Postgresql / Full Time / Remote Senior PostgreSQL DBC Bengaluru| IST | Remote Available Shifts PST -10 PM - 3 AM IST Why Pythian? At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy. Why you? Are you a Senior PostgreSQL who lives in Bengaluru - India ? Are you community minded? Do you blog, contribute to the Open Source community? Are you inspired by ever-shifting challenges, constant growth and collaboration with a team of peers who push you constantly to up your game? At Pythian, we are actively shaping what it means to be an open-source database engineer and administrator, and we want you to be a part of the world’s top team of MongoDB, Cassandra, and MySQL professionals.If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out! Intrigued to see what a life is like at Pythian? Check out #pythianlife on and follow on Instagram! Not the right job for you? Check out what other great jobs Pythian has open around the world!

What will you be doing?

• As a Senior PostgreSQL Consultant (DBC) you will work as part of Pythian's open source team and supply complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of our customers.
• Our collaborative environment means everyone works together to solve complex puzzles and develop innovative solutions for our customers.
• You'll work closely with the customer teams to understand their needs, in both a project based and long term support capacity.
• You'll create and document database standards, create optimized queries, indexes, and data structure.
• Monitor and support database environments and serve as an escalation point for complex troubleshooting and interactive production support.
• Use database vendor provided tools and Pythian developed accelerators to performance tune various database system, specific queries and applications scenarios.
• Diagnose and address database performance issues using performance monitors and various tuning techniques.
• Identify areas of opportunity and recommend appropriate improvement suggestions.
• Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.
• When you're not fixing things, you'll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, creating new articles in our customer facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things like participating in conferences and meetups promoting Pythian to the open source community.

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