Database Architect (PostgreSQL)

If digital transformation, next generation technology and growth opportunities excite you, then join our Netcracker Technology team! Our culture and collaborative work environment are the keys to our success. Here you will work with the best in class global teams, earn a competitive salary and contribute to the largest digital transformations around the world.

What’s in it for you?

At Netcracker, we are all entrepreneurs. This means, we get creative when thinking of technical solutions, we explore possibilities and innovations and get excited about new technology. We take complete ownership of our roles and aren’t micromanaged or left feeling like just another number. The results we achieve are highly visible to our leadership team and we are recognized for our work and promoted accordingly. In addition to living out an entrepreneurial culture, you will also receive a wide range of outstanding benefits including health, accident and life insurance as well as paid time off, sick time, transportation and parental leave.

What You’ll Do
• As part of DB stream of Methodology and Acceptance division, you will be working on various DB technologies covering PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Oracle databases.
• Work on initiatives to define best practices for major DB related tasks like DB configurations covering optimization parameters, high availability and fault tolerant systems implementations, space management/estimations and backups/restore solutions.
• Define monitoring and health check parameters, processes around production and non-production systems.
• Work with various project teams to understand the challenges/risks in production systems and come up with solution in close coordination with teams.
• Build central knowledge base for all the DBA teams by documenting important technical practices.

What we are looking for:
• Minimum 6+ years of experience as production DBA
• At least 2+ year experience on PostgreSQL.
• Hands on experience with optimization of databases implementations covering configurations, Infrastructure layout, in coordination with application and operations teams.
• Experience working in DevOps/SRE environment and building automations around DB activities.
• Experience on all or most of this Technology stack: PostgreSQL, Cassandra, pgBackRest/patroni/pgBouncer/pgpool and similar tools, Streaming replication, Oracle RAC databases, RMAN, Logical replication solutions (GoldenGate, Debezium), Linux
• Experience on projects implementation for cloud solutions covering critical DB implementations on PaaS, DBaaS.
• Experience on MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis will be an added advantage.
• Ability to identify the opportunities for improvement areas and build solutions proactively.
• Effective communication skills