Senior PostgreSQL Developer

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Role:

We require an experienced PostgreSQL Specialist to join a leading company on a permanent basis. As the PostgreSQL Engineer, you will be responsible for developing reviewing, tuning, testing, and reporting across a new reporting suite based on the organisation PostgreSQL data warehouse/database. As the PostgreSQL Specialist, you will also establish telemetry dashboards whilst also creating and implementing any recommendations.

Who are we looking for:

• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience of data warehousing
• Experience of performing load testing
• Experience of working in past paced high availability environments
• Experience of deploying large PostgreSQL implementations and apply data security
• Experience of cloud platforms – AWS, Azure 
• Recovery and Replication
• Overall system health
• Developing Triggers/Stored Procedures
• Query optimization
• Developing SQL reports and business logic of UNIFY
• Staging, testing and development of database
• Documentation of schema
• Schema Management, updates, and rollbacks

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the monitoring and uptime of all production databases.
• Estimate PostgreSQL database capacities; develop methods for monitoring database capacity and usage.
• Lead efforts to develop and improve procedures for automated monitoring and proactive intervention, reducing any need downtime.
• Develop Stored Procedures and Database Triggers in support of application development.
• 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.
• Responsible for developer SQL code review to ensure queries are optimized and tuned to perform efficiently prior to production release.
• Responsible for regular backups and recovery of databases.
• Responsible for regular maintenance on databases (e.g., Vacuum, Reindexing, Archiving).
• Responsible for pro-active remediation of database operational problems.
• Responsible for Query tuning and preventative maintenance.
• Participate in a 24×7 support rotation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field
• 5-8 Years of relevant experience 
• It would be grateful if PostgreSQL certification database certification