Sr. AWS PostgreSQL DBA

Labcorp is recruiting a Senior AWS PostgreSQL DBA for a dynamic team in either the RTP or Burlington, NC area.

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Summary Of Position

LabCorp is looking for a hands-on DBA, technologist and architect who has deep experience in PostgreSQL implementation to focus on building out the PostgreSQL DBA service. They will need to have experience with both on-premise and AWS cloud implementation.

Responsibilities Include

• Architect the PostgreSQL environment to support application requirements including the use of read replicas, number of connections, managing concurrency etc.
• Lead efforts to develop and improve procedures for automated monitoring and proactive intervention, reducing any unplanned downtime.
• Participate in application development projects and be responsible for the database architecture and design.
• Participate in the creation of development, staging, and production database instances, and the migration from one environment to another.
• Participate in developer SQL code review to ensure queries are optimized and tuned to perform efficiently prior to production release.
• Establish and implement processes / automation which ensures regular backups and recovery of databases.
• Automate and perform regular database maintenance (e.g., Vacuum, Reindexing, Archiving, Connection pooling).
• Perform Query tuning and preventative maintenance.
• Participate in a 24×7 support rotation.
• Support complex cloud applications.
• Establish replication, as needed, to / from PostgreSQL instances

Required Skills And Experience

Desired Skills

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Skills Required

Red Hat, Etl Tools, Postgresql, Dynamodb, Database Design, Query Tuning, Database Maintenance, Replication, pgadmin , Mongodb, Amazon Rds, Aws