Principal Cloud Database Administrator

5 months ago

Waterloo, Canada opentext Full time

**OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY**

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.

**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Database Administrator with strong PostgreSQL experience who will be responsible for the performance, availability, security, and backup/recovery of PostgreSQL clusters on VMWare, AWS RDS, and GCP CloudSQL managed services. Along with the opportunity to gain experience and support Oracle and/or SQL Server instances.

**You Are Good At**:

- Pro-actively review database metrics, identify bottlenecks, and tune database and query performance.
- Implement backup/recovery strategies with point-in-time restore capability to meet customer's SLA. Periodically perform data restore to ensure recoverability.
- Implement/maintain data replication in disaster recovery environments and execute disaster recovery exercises annually.
- Respond to page-outs as part of the on-call rotation, perform incident recovery, and root cause analysis, and identify and implement corrective actions.
- Develop and maintain documented procedures to ensure consistent and effective database operation in the team.
- Function as PostgreSQL SME supporting your peers to provide expertise, input, and insights as needed.
- Automate database deployments on-prem and in the cloud using Terraform and Ansible.
- Migrate legacy database solutions to AWS or GCP-managed database services.
- Engage with enterprise architects and strategic internal and external partners to ensure our database deployments are in line with defined best practices.
- Prototype new database solutions or versions and then deploy and build them to scale.
- Self-motivation to learn and grow technical skills
- Support the team by performing Scrum Master duties within the team, including:

- Implement Agile methodologies within the database administration processes, adapting Scrum practices to accommodate database-related tasks.

**What It Takes**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering or related
- Should have at least 8 years of Information technology experience
- 3+ years of PostgreSQL operations experience
- Expert skills in setting up and managing PostgreSQL HA environments
- Expert skills in PostgreSQL troubleshooting and performance management
- Expert skills in PostgreSQL backup/recovery
- Strong Unix skills, especially in writing automation scripts for remote execution
- Proficiency in writing and optimizing SQL statements and query plans
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment working on projects against strict deadlines
- Experience supporting enterprise-level database environments
- Strong and effective facilitation, communication, and leadership skills to support the team

Additional Value-Added Qualifications:

- Skills in Oracle or SQL Server database administration
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other automation technologies
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines with GitLab.
- Strong understanding of ITIL principles, certification is a plus
- Experience with database monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Experience with HELM, containerized database solutions, and Kubernetes

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