engineering
Posted YesterdayCloud Database Engineer - PostgreSQL
at Rackspace
Hyderabad, IndiaOn-site
Requirements
- Role Summary We are seeking an experienced PostgreSQl DBA to ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud DBaaS platform across: Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform 🔹 What We’re Looking For 3-5+ years in PostgreSQL Exposure to cloud ( AWS , Azure , GCP - Any ) Someone who is ok to work from office - Hyderabad Location Deep HA/DR & performance tuning expertise Automation-first mindset (Terraform, scripting, CI/CD)
- Experience in SaaS/DBaaS environments preferred For a PostgreSQL DBA in a DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) support role, the following mandatory skills are typically required: 1.
- Database Administration (DBA) Skills Primary Database: PostgreSQL Secondary Database: Any DB Database Backup & Recovery: Tools and strategies for database backups and disaster recovery.
- Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge (DBaaS) Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora), Azure (Cosmos DB, SQL Database), GCP (Cloud SQL, Firestore).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes.
- Kubernetes & Containers: Running databases in containers (like Kubernetes).
- Observability Tools: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Database Migration: Migrating databases across different platforms or cloud environments.
- Scripting and Automation Scripting Languages: Python, Shell scripting, Bash, PowerShell.
- We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Benefits
- We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic.
Additional details
- Performance Tuning: Query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance troubleshooting.
- Database Security: User management, roles, access control, and auditing. 2.
- Database Scaling: Vertical and horizontal scaling techniques in cloud environments. 3.
- SRE Principles (Site Reliability Engineering) Incident Management: Handling database outages, incident response, and on-call rotations.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch.
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensuring uptime and performance targets.
- Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions. 4.
- Infrastructure Automation: Automating database deployment, patching, and scaling About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts.
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