Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.
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About the Role:
This person will supplement the Database Engineering team. This team selects the operational database technologies used by the client and determines how best to set them up.
This person will be able to define, design, implement, test, and communicate the architectures, configurations, best practices, and standards for optimal use of database technologies across the company, both on-prem and in the cloud.
Key Responsibilities:
Certifying the latest and greatest of the technologies.
Install, configure, patch, upgrade, deploy, and run Postgres databases.
Evaluate and prepare new & upgraded Postgres and Postgres-compatible offerings for enterprise use.
Document and explain the new techniques, patterns, and best practices for the hosting, DB admin, and Ops Support teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years experience with enterprise-scale Postgres deployments including:
Cluster management, troubleshooting, backup & restoration, rolling upgrade techniques, fault tolerance & failover, replication, monitoring and alerting, security mechanisms, and intra & inter-datacenter high availability configurations.
Knowledge of DBMS concepts (ACID, CAP & consistency).
Experience with Ansible.
Postgres internals like durability and replication settings and performance tuning.
Exposure to Kubernetes and/or Docker.
Ability to write code in Python, Terraform, or other database-related tools.
Location: Phoenix, AZ (Onsite 3 days per week)
Salary Range: The salary for this position is $100,000 - $115,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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