Senior Database Administrator

We are CirrusLabs . Our vision is to become the world's most sought-after niche digital transformation company that helps customers realize value through innovation. Our mission is to co-create success with our customers, partners and community. Our goal is to enable employees to dream, grow and make things happen. We are committed to excellence. We are a dependable partner organization that delivers on commitments. We strive to maintain integrity with our employees and customers. Every action we take is driven by value. The core of who we are is through our well-knit teams and employees. You are the core of a values driven organization.

You have an entrepreneurial spirit. You enjoy working as a part of well-knit teams. You value the team over the individual. You welcome diversity at work and within the greater community. You aren't afraid to take risks. You appreciate a growth path with your leadership team that journeys how you can grow inside and outside of the organization. You thrive upon continuing education programs that your company sponsors to strengthen your skills and for you to become a thought leader ahead of the industry curve.

You are excited about creating change because your skills can help the greater good of every customer, industry and community. We are hiring a talented Senior Database Administrator to join our team. If you're excited to be part of a winning team, CirrusLabs () is a great place to grow your career.

Experience - 8-10 years

Location - Bengaluru

Work Timings - 3 PM - 12 AM IST

Job Summary

As a senior database administrator, you will be responsible for the administration, optimization, and reliability of Liongard's core platform database. You will work closely with development and DevOps teams to ensure database instances are performant, scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient.

The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and hands-on expertise in leveraging AWS RDS and / or Aurora for high availability, performance, scalability, and disaster recovery.

Duties and Responsibilities

Architect, plan, and coordinate with development and DevOps teams to implement improvements to availability, scalability, and performance of Liongard's core platform RDS PostgreSQL database instances in a cost-efficient manner.

Monitor database performance and troubleshoot high-resource utilization.

Analyze and optimize database performance by tuning configuration parameters, query plans, and indexes.

Plan and perform database major version upgrades and data migrations ensuring minimal downtime across production instances.

Required Qualifications

8+ years of experience as a database administrator with at least 4 years of experience managing PostgreSQL on AWS RDS or Aurora.

BS or higher in Computer Science or related field.

Required Skills

Deep expertise in PostgreSQL administration, including configuration, performance monitoring, query performance tuning, replication, and backup / recovery.

Strong experience with AWS RDS, including multi-AZ and read replicas.

Experience with partitioning, sharding, and other techniques to handle large-scale data growth.

Experience with AWS Aurora.

Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Excellent problem-solving and teamwork skills.

Desired Skills

AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification.

Cybersecurity industry experience.

Experience with DynamoDB.

Experience with Amazon Athena.

Experience with Grafana's LGTM stack.

Familiar with Agile methodologies.