Database Administrator

Database Administrators' roles and responsibilities are crucial to the success of our product platform at Entrata. The Database Administrator (DBA) is pivotal in providing highly scalable and performant databases which drive features and functions for our product platform. The DBA proactively works with development, operations, and support teams to provide technical and operational support to database servers, including logical and physical database design, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, monitoring, and optimization.

The Database Administrator is key to the success of Entrata’s Research and Development (R & D) department and reports to our Director of CloudOps. This position is primarily responsible for the support and uptime of mission-critical PostgreSQL data applications and services. The role includes everything from configuration, performance, security, automation, observability and more. Success for this role will be to focus on automation, high availability performance, and end-to-end optimizations of our databases..

Responsibilities will include:
• Responsible for the monitoring and uptime of all production and test databases
• Develop and implement procedures for automated monitoring, incident response, performance, and high-availability of our databases
• Participate in architecting and designing zero-downtime database services
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Engineering, Architecture, and Product teams to provide database application features for our customers
• Work with Database Engineers to ensure query optimization and performance tuning
• Responsible for data protection strategies including regular backups and recovery processes
• Leverage cloud technologies to improve performance, reliability, and quality and reduce cost for our database services

Minimum Qualifications:
• 3+ years overall experience, including 2+ years of database administration
• Experience setting up and managing PostgreSQL cloud-native environments (AWS preferred)
• Strong understanding of modern cloud-native environments (AWS preferred) and containerization technologies
• Detailed understanding of PostgreSQL database server architecture, concepts, features, and high-availability strategies
• Understanding of managing geographically dispersed infrastructure and disaster recovery environments
• Experience in one or more scripting/programming languages
• Ability to perform in a high energy environment with dynamic job responsibilities and priorities
• Strong analytical skills to debug, troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests

Preferred Qualifications:
• 2+ years as a PostgreSQL database administrator
• AWS Certifications
• Experience in a high-volume or critical production environment
• Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed database systems
• Expert in data structures, algorithms, and complex analysis.

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