22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
Database Engineer
22nd Century Technologies, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
Job Title:
Database Engineer
Location:
Washington, DC 20002 (Hybrid)
Duration:
12+ months, Contract
Shift Timing:
Day
Pay Rate:
$60-70/hr on W2
Job Summary
The purpose of this position is to perform and manage tasks related to the operation, support, administration, optimization, and maintenance of USAC owned databases and database tools.
Role & Responsibilities
Install, configure, patch, and upgrade database software PostgreSQL
Produce detailed technical architecture designs for PostgreSQL solutions.
Support of production and non-production PostgreSQL databases
Support of production and non-production databases: Correct issues reported in production system, support routine and ad-hoc IT DBA requests
Update documentation, if required as part of correcting production issues, implement and monitor daily and nightly database maintenance jobs
Monitor, diagnose, and respond to system failure and performance issues, taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of the problem
Work with USAC technical staff, including network engineers and software developers, to analyze and improve system performance
Formulate and implement backup and monthly maintenance procedures for PostgreSQL
Production clusters
Serve as technical support for any database related performance or access issue
Generate ad-hoc and routine reports and define metrics for database health and performance
Administer, maintain, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of company databases.
Leading the team in providing technical support for any database-related performance or access issue
Perform or affect the performance of all database installations, patches, and planned upgrades.
Implement data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes.
Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other database issues.
Perform database related development as dictated by departmental or project demands.
Design and perform data migrations and data transformations as required by application delivery teams or business customers.
Develop and maintain documentation, diagrams, and procedures and complies with company's change management control process.
Ensure that all database designs adhere to industry best practices.
Work with application delivery teams during database design.
Possess substantial knowledge about application and database performance profiles of all databases under their management.
Represent the IT department in terms of database expertise in coordination with other departments.
Required Experience
Experience with PostgreSQL database Administration 8+ Years.
Production support experience on PostgreSQL 8+ Years.
Experience with Puppet deployment tool 3+ Years.
Good understanding of Monitoring Tools such as PEM and TOAD 4+ Years.
Expert level of PostgreSQL knowledge and experience with PostgreSQL 9.5 5+ Years.
Experience with database characteristics such as table design, relationships, data partition, efficient indexes, storage allocation, capacity planning, etc. 7+ Years.
High Availability Solutions (Master-Master, Master-Slave) and sharing 5+ Years.
Experience in performance tuning and load testing of database 7+ Years.
Knowledge of NoSQL database security concepts 5+ Years.
Experience in supporting PostgreSQL databases in Cloud (Google, AWS, etc.) 3+ Years.
Linux/Unix platforms and Linux Shell scripting 5+ Years.
Display strong ability in troubleshooting complex issues 5+ Years.
Experience in performance tuning and load testing of database 7+ Years.
Knowledge of database security concepts 5+Years.
Experience with high availability database and application architectures 3+ Years.
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Database Engineer
Location:
Washington, DC 20002 (Hybrid)
Duration:
12+ months, Contract
Shift Timing:
Day
Pay Rate:
$60-70/hr on W2
Job Summary
The purpose of this position is to perform and manage tasks related to the operation, support, administration, optimization, and maintenance of USAC owned databases and database tools.
Role & Responsibilities
Install, configure, patch, and upgrade database software PostgreSQL
Produce detailed technical architecture designs for PostgreSQL solutions.
Support of production and non-production PostgreSQL databases
Support of production and non-production databases: Correct issues reported in production system, support routine and ad-hoc IT DBA requests
Update documentation, if required as part of correcting production issues, implement and monitor daily and nightly database maintenance jobs
Monitor, diagnose, and respond to system failure and performance issues, taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of the problem
Work with USAC technical staff, including network engineers and software developers, to analyze and improve system performance
Formulate and implement backup and monthly maintenance procedures for PostgreSQL
Production clusters
Serve as technical support for any database related performance or access issue
Generate ad-hoc and routine reports and define metrics for database health and performance
Administer, maintain, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of company databases.
Leading the team in providing technical support for any database-related performance or access issue
Perform or affect the performance of all database installations, patches, and planned upgrades.
Implement data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes.
Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other database issues.
Perform database related development as dictated by departmental or project demands.
Design and perform data migrations and data transformations as required by application delivery teams or business customers.
Develop and maintain documentation, diagrams, and procedures and complies with company's change management control process.
Ensure that all database designs adhere to industry best practices.
Work with application delivery teams during database design.
Possess substantial knowledge about application and database performance profiles of all databases under their management.
Represent the IT department in terms of database expertise in coordination with other departments.
Required Experience
Experience with PostgreSQL database Administration 8+ Years.
Production support experience on PostgreSQL 8+ Years.
Experience with Puppet deployment tool 3+ Years.
Good understanding of Monitoring Tools such as PEM and TOAD 4+ Years.
Expert level of PostgreSQL knowledge and experience with PostgreSQL 9.5 5+ Years.
Experience with database characteristics such as table design, relationships, data partition, efficient indexes, storage allocation, capacity planning, etc. 7+ Years.
High Availability Solutions (Master-Master, Master-Slave) and sharing 5+ Years.
Experience in performance tuning and load testing of database 7+ Years.
Knowledge of NoSQL database security concepts 5+ Years.
Experience in supporting PostgreSQL databases in Cloud (Google, AWS, etc.) 3+ Years.
Linux/Unix platforms and Linux Shell scripting 5+ Years.
Display strong ability in troubleshooting complex issues 5+ Years.
Experience in performance tuning and load testing of database 7+ Years.
Knowledge of database security concepts 5+Years.
Experience with high availability database and application architectures 3+ Years.
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