Yugabyte/Postgres Engineer

Yugabyte / Postgres Engineer

6 Month CTH

3-5 years experience

Must be local to Scottsdale / Phoenix. 3 Days / Week in the office mandatory

Interview : Video

Resume cannot be more than 3 -pages

We require the following when submitting;

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LinkedIn Profile link

2 professional references

Background : team is a part of the R&D organization and is the central architect group at Client. Recently, Client partnered with Yugabyte, a new in house database and they are in the process of implementing.

Manager is granted approval to hire for the following three new positions. Job descriptions are attached.

Help chart the course for database technology at Client! We need top technical talent to supplement our Database Engineering team.

This team selects the operational database technologies Client will use, and figures out how best to set them up. We 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.

We evaluate new and upgraded database versions, features, components and extensions for performance, throughput, scalability, availability, and security;

and we partner with our hosting, database administration, and operational support teams to operationalize and harden OLTP technology for our top-tier financial applications.

This specific posting is for a software / infrastructure engineer with experience in installing, configuring, patching, upgrading, deploying and running Yugabyte databases.

The candidate will put these skills to use by evaluating and preparing new and upgraded Yugabyte and Postgres-compatible offerings for use across the company, and by documenting, presenting and explaining the appropriate techniques, patterns and best practices for our hosting, database administration and operational support teams.

The candidate will bring solid knowledge of DBMS concepts such as ACID, CAP and consistency. The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprise-scale Yugabyte deployments, including intra- and inter-data-center high availability configurations, fault tolerance and failover, replication, cluster management, automated cluster provisioning, rolling upgrade techniques, backup & restoration techniques, security mechanisms, health monitoring and alerting techniques, and troubleshooting.

The candidate will also bring knowledge of Yugabyte internals such as sharding and replication settings, and performance tuning.

We recognize that Yugabyte is a relatively new database technology, and that there may not be many candidates with extensive knowledge of Yugabyte.

We're happy to train on the job, presuming the candidate has similar knowledge of other databases such as Google Spanner, Cassandra, Postgres and / or Oracle, for candidates that are interested in becoming Yugabyte experts.

Additional desirable attributes

Skill at the Unix command line

The ability to write code or script, e.g. for test harnesses or other database-related tools and utilities

Experience as a database administrator and / or a Unix system administrator

Knowledge of virtualization and cloud infrastructures, and of implementations such as VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker

Knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or other public cloud offerings

Knowledge of modern storage and compute technologies, including hyper-converged infrastructures

Bachelor's degree preferred.

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