Sr. Postgres Database Consultant
The world loves Postgres. If you work with developers or data scientists or anyone wrangling data, you’ll probably see a sticker with the tusks and trunk of the Postgres elephant on the lid of a nearby laptop. EDB has a lot to do with that.
We’ve been major contributors to Postgres since the beginning, and we are proud to call thousands of boundary pushing customers our partners. Proud though we are, we are not resting on our laurels. There’s plenty of work to do. The good news is that everything we do will impact Postgres, which is to say that it will impact the world. No pressure.
We are looking for a customer-focused Sr. Bi-Lingual Postgres Database Consultant (Must speak English & French and/or Italian) and can work with our Enterprise customers to deliver EnterpriseDB technical services. This includes understanding their business, developing recommendations and delivering training where appropriate. The ideal candidate has a strong blend of people skills and in-depth knowledge of database deployments, and has the ability to translate client requirements into actionable designs. Communication skills, both written and verbal are as important as technical skills. In addition to delivering technical services, this person in this role will provide feedback to sales and sales engineering for new business opportunities. This position requires occasional travel as needed (when safe to do so again) >10%.
100% Remote Position for candidates within the EU/UK: preference toward Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Benelux, or UK
Responsibilities
- Evaluate customer deployments of Postgres, and associated tools, and make recommendations on how to improve them and document the required technical steps
- Work to develop Professional Services proposals to achieve customer needs/targets
- Familiarity with programming languages like C, C++, PHP, Python, Java and/or Ruby to guide customers in the development of custom Postgres-based applications
- Perform database Migrations from Oracle, SQL Server, and / or MySQL to PostgreSQL
- Performance tuning for existing database deployments
- Work with customer to upgrade their application to the latest version of Postgres and configure / change their application to take advantage of new features
- Set up High Availability configurations using PostgreSQL
- Evaluate security needs by customer and make recommendations
- Document all work clearly and concisely in runbooks and customer communications throughout the project
- Implement backup strategies and performs upgrades and patching
- Develop architectures to migrate data and entire databases; implement and deliver on the architecture migrating databases
Requirements
- Must be Bi-Lingual in English & French (preference) and/or Italian
- Bachelor or Masters of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of DBA level experience for PostgreSQL
- 2+ years experience working for a professional consulting organization or similar field
- Be well-versed in SQL
- Be familiar with database design and building applications for PostgreSQL and Oracle, as well as other databases
- General system administration and performance skills for Linux, (Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat, or Debian), including facility with scripting
- Working knowledge of MS Windows
- Have strong time management skills, and the ability to balance multiple coincident demands.
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills
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We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We’d love to hear from you and we want you to apply!
EDB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. EDB was built on a commitment to trust and respect each other and to embrace an array of people and ideas. These values remain at the center of our culture and are key to our company’s integrity.
Our US benefits package is listed here - additional benefits packages available upon request