Career Developers, Inc. · 5 days ago
Sr. PostgreSQL Database Administrator (High Avilability)
Houston, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expCareer Developers Inc. is a distinguished staffing and consulting firm with 30 years of service excellence. They are seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to support and enhance high-performance database infrastructure for trading and research platforms, collaborating with various teams to design and optimize database solutions.
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Responsibilities
Support and enhance highly available, high-performance database infrastructure for trading and research platforms
Collaborate closely with development, investment, and infrastructure teams to design and support cross-platform database solutions
Administer and optimize PostgreSQL environments, with exposure to Redis, ClickHouse, and Microsoft SQL
Design, implement, and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
Monitor, tune, and optimize database performance, indexes, triggers, and stored procedures
Own database-related projects end to end, from design through deployment and production support
Apply DevOps best practices to improve automation, reliability, and scalability
Qualification
Required
5+ years of database administration experience (PostgreSQL strongly preferred; ClickHouse or FoundationDB acceptable)
Hands-on experience with high availability architectures and disaster recovery planning
Strong knowledge of database performance tuning and optimization
Linux systems administration experience
Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, Ruby, or Perl
Working understanding of source control and software development lifecycle concepts
Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical teams
Strong problem-solving skills with a structured, iterative approach
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience with additional platforms: ClickHouse, FoundationDB, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j
Exposure to configuration management tools such as Chef, Terraform, or Ansible
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, AlertManager, Thanos)
CI/CD pipeline experience
Cloud experience with AWS and/or GCP
Virtualization and containerization experience (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes)
Windows systems administration background
Company
Career Developers, Inc.
Career Developers, located in West Palm Beach and has been serving the NY Metro area for 3 decades! We are an experienced, full-service agency providing permanent placement as well as consulting/contracting services.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase