Senior Database Administrator
HybridTbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
Job Summary
Ensure database services meet agreed service levels for availability, recoverability, performance, and scalability. Design and manage database subsystems, including clustering and replication, while defining backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity procedures. Handle compliance with industry standards and establish monitoring standards, capacity planning practices, and operational metrics to proactively identify risks. Investigate production incidents, coordinate resolution efforts, perform root cause analysis, and drive remediation initiatives. Work closely with Developers, Quality Assurance, and Support departments on database-related requests. Participate in an on-call rotation as an escalation point for complex production issues. Apply cost reduction practices for Cloud database Infrastructure and conduct deep analysis of database performance issues. Oversee data migration projects, perform risk analysis, and drive innovation in database technologies.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL in production environments within mission-critical systems
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating high-availability PostgreSQL architectures using Patroni
- Hands-on experience managing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
- Strong expertise in backup and recovery strategies, including planning and executing Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) using tools such as pgBackRest and Barman
- Solid understanding of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, vacuuming, query planning, replication concepts, etc)
- Extensive experience with performance monitoring, SQL workload analysis, and database tuning, with the ability to identify bottlenecks and optimize database performance
- Experience automating database deployment, configuration management, and operational processes using Ansible
- Practical experience implementing and maintaining PostgreSQL partitioning strategies, including both native partitioning and TimescaleDB for time-series workloads
- Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems, including system performance analysis, process management, networking fundamentals, and storage concepts relevant to database operation
- Familiarity with database monitoring and observability tools such as Zabbix, including metrics collection, alerting, and log analysis
Desired Qualifications
- Exposure to column-oriented database technologies such as ClickHouse, with an understanding of their core concepts, architecture, and performance characteristics, would be a plus
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