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Acess Global

Postgres DBA

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

Postgres DBA Location: Sunnyvale, CA/Austin, Tx Duration: 6 months Onsite role Role Descriptions: 1. Strong knowledge of Postgres Architecture. 2. Experience with different types of backup and ...

InterSources Inc

No SQL DBA

San Jose, CA · On-site

$58.50 - $73.25/hr

Responsibilities : • Required No SQL DBA Postgres, Redis, Past experience in AWS migration, Data back and recovery plan experience for SaaS product, AWS services like Dynamodb and S3. • Need to ...

Infosys

Postgres SQL DBA

Irvine, CA · On-site

$53.75 - $67/hr

In the assigned Job Role of Infrastructure Consultant 2, your Area Of Responsibility will be as below: • Collaborate with internal and client teams to resolve complex incidents, conduct root cause ...

New

Zof AI

Backend Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120 - $190/hr

This role covers job orchestration and queueing for long-running agent runs, Postgres schema and query performance, and the storage paths for the evidence and validation artifacts every fix we ship ...

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Zof AI

Full Stack Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$110 - $165/hr

This role spans the Next.js, React, and TypeScript surfaces where customers review agent findings and the Node and Postgres services that store runs, evidence, and validated fixes. If you have worked ...

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Staffwing Inc

PostgreSQL DBA

San Jose, CA · On-site

Company Description One of our direct client, a BigData & Data Science major is implementing BigData solution at end client site and is looking for a strong Postgres DBA to implement Postgres in ...

Staffwing Inc

PostgreSQL DBA

San Jose, CA · On-site

Company Description One of our direct client, a BigData & Data Science major is implementing BigData solution at end client site and is looking for a strong Postgres DBA to implement Postgres in ...

Xforia, Inc.

Rust Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

Utilize numerous technologies such as NATS, OpenSearch, and Postgres when building a feature to provide an optimized user experience * Make trade-off decisions to balance the speed of development ...

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Postgres DBA

Acess Global

Sunnyvale, CA • On-site

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Job description

Job Title: Postgres DBA

Location: Sunnyvale, CA/Austin, Tx

Duration: 6 months

Onsite role

Role Descriptions:

1. Strong knowledge of Postgres Architecture.

2. Experience with different types of backup and restores in Postgres.

3. Experience with database upgrade on minor and major versions.

4. Hands-on experience on Database replication and point-in-time-recovery.

5. Day to Day operations and troubleshooting performance issues like load average, locks, blocking and long running sqls.

6. Commonly used PostgreSQL configuration parameters and common system tables usage.

7. Exposure to PostgreSQL maintenance tasks.

8. Exposure to PostgreSQL deployments in cloud like AWS(RDS or EC2) or GCP.

9. High-availability like Repmgr or pgpool or efm 10. Exceptional experience administering multi-terabyte databases 11. Aptitude to independently learn new technologies 12. Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams 13. Background in building  large database infrastructure supporting a high volume of transactions in a mission-critical environment 14. Hands on experience on Kubernetes or any containerization technologies. "

Skills: PostgreSQL

Experience Required: 6-8

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