NYC, H1B, US Citizen or resident
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DBA/Database Operations Engineer
We’re seeking a DBA/Database Operations Engineer who brings an operations perspective to database administration and a data perspective to scaling web operations. You love to write code that automates your data infrastructure (from bare metal/bare cloud to taking production traffic, at the "push of a button"). You modularize, reuse, and version control that code. You use the latest technologies, but still value uptime, performance, and stability. You follow best practices, but iterate over your projects quickly and smartly.
Responsibilities:
Provision and optimize PostgreSQL infrastructure for rapidly growing consumer web application
Maintain various staging and production PostgreSQL database instances
“Infrastructure as code"
Troubleshoot production database issues
Requirements:
Database administration (PostgreSQL, Redis, pgbouncer)
Linux systems administration (CentOS, RHEL)
Configuration management (Chef, Puppet)
Monitoring/availability (Nagios)
Trending/metrics collection (Collectd, Statsd, Graphite)
Web/application serving (Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, Rails)
Continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Capistrano)
Scripting (Bash, Ruby)
Version control (Git, Svn)
Network administration (DNS, firewall, load-balancing)
Hosting (managed hosting, VMware, Amazon Web Services)
To Apply:
Please send your resume and cover letter to REDACTED_EMAIL
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