Remote Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator
Paymentology
Time zones: SBT (UTC +11), GMT (UTC +0), CET (UTC +1), EET (UTC +2), MSK (UTC +3)
Job Description:Paymentology is the first truly global issuer-processor, giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to rapidly issue and process Mastercard, Visa and UnionPay cards across more than 50 countries, at scale.
Our advanced, multi-cloud platform, offering both shared and dedicated processing instances, vast global presence and richer, real-time data, set us apart as the leader in payments.
As a SeniorPostgreSQL Database Administrator at Paymentology, you will be working closely with Infrastructure & Security team to provide support to the database environment of our enterprise-level, highly scalable, highly secure financial processing system that powers tens of millions of transactions using web, mobile and API interfaces, making it easy for people to issue, redeem and reconcile prepaid cards all over the world.This role is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer who loves data, mathematics, software architecture, system architecture, and programming. Your focus will be split between supporting the current Postgres database environment while architecting, planning, and implementing the database environment migration to AWS (RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and potentially more).
What you get to do:
- Responsible for understanding operational requirements including hardware, architecting, configuring, integrating, and maintaining mission critical Production PostgreSQL databases
- Responsible for all backup, recovery, PITR replicating
- Experience on community supported tools like Pgbadger, Slony, PGadmin, Pgpool, Pgbouncer
- Clusters and upgrading/migrating various PostgreSQL database versions
- Database administration and tuning databases
- Develop database automation scripts and maintenance
- Provide technical guidance for integration, testing, design, development, planning of new production systems/databases
- Contribute to improving and creating DBA policies, procedures and standards
What it takes to succeed:
- 4+ years strong experience as DBA/PostgreSQL DBA
- 1+ Years of working with cloud / virtualisation technologies
- Experience in monitoring, managing and maintaining mission critical 24 by 7 production databases along with installation and configuration of database, implementing high-availability solutions, setup monitoring tools, setup database security, optimising resources, etc
- SQL query tuning hands on experience
- Should know any one scripting language (Python/shell/PowerShell)
- Good communication skills
- A willingness to roll up your sleeves, a service approach to leadership, a history of respect for all colleagues
- Excellent command over the English language
- A willingness to learn, a flexibility to adapt
- Highly competitive and strong work ethic
- Flexibility to work in Shifts and on weekends to support 24*7
We believe everyone has ideas to contribute to our objective of continuous improvement, so you will be expected to take ownership and bring ideas to the table, and inspire others in the team to do the same.
- You are determined to achieve top-quality results in all projects you are working on.
- Confidence in taking on challenging conversations and situations collaborate with each area of the company to get to the best product for our users.
- Passion for the craft and love of technology and a self-starter.
- Support the core team and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to assist other engineers in resolving production-related issues.
English is our company language, so it’s important that you be able to communicate at a fluent level.
This is a full-time, remote contractor position and we are looking for candidates in Europe. Flexible hours are a must for our remote team.What you can look forward to:At Paymentology we value making a difference to the lives of the people who work for us and who live in the communities where we operate. As values are important to us, you can look forward to working alongside fellow Paymentologists, who share these values. You’ll be part of a team that is passionate about making a difference on a global scale.
We focus on building strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences & identities.
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