Sr. Database Administrator, Cloud Operations

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Job Description

Job Description

Workday’s Adaptive Planning Business Unit is looking for a Senior Database Administrator in their Cloud Operations teams. As Database Administrator, Cloud Operations, you will be responsible for the support and uptime of mission-critical Oracle, PostgreSQL and Cassandra data applications and services. You will be challenged with everything from configuration, performance, security, automation, observability and more. A key ingredient for success in this role is a high focus on automation, high availability and end-to-end optimization of the database stack. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and administer 24x7 Oracle and PostgreSQL Database on Cloud infrastructure , with a focus on the performance, high availability and scale.

• Collaborate with development, architecture, and release teams, providing architectural design recommendations, driving standards for effective transition to PostgreSQL.

• Administration of PostgreSQL databases throughout the development and production lifecycles.

• Develop and maintain database monitoring tools and automation systems

• Conduct planning, cost analysis and vendor assessments for database technologies and platforms.

• Manage the Database replication, Backups and be the point of contact for any recovery situations on our Cloud Database Oracle,PostgreSQL Infrastructure.

• Implement automated methods and industry best practices for consistent installation and configuration of PostgreSQL for production and non-production environments

• Participate in on-call monitoring response: 1 week primary, 1 week secondary, 2 weeks off

• Install, monitor, and maintain Oracle and PostgreSQL, implement monitoring and alerting, implemented backup and recovery processes, provide system and SQL performance tuning.
  

Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Database Administration experience working with Oracle and PostgreSQL in a multi data center environment with support for high availability and disaster recovery

• 2+ years experience setting up and managing Oracle, PostgreSQL on AWS EC2 Virtual Server and Experience in other AWS services like S3 , Route 53 , EBS volumes .

• 2+ years of experience in automation using Terraform/Cloudformation and Experience in Python/GO/Bash.

• Detailed understanding of PostgreSQL database server architecture, concepts, features, and high-availability technologies

• Experience managing geographically dispersed infrastructure and DR environments

• Strong understanding of Cloud Platforms storage performance, memory, and I/O (AWS, Azure, Google cloud)

• Experience in configuration management tools such as Chef, Jenkins and Puppet preferred.

• Experience in Docker containers with Kubernetes, Cassandra , experience in agile and DevOps methodologies implementation preferred.

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field