Position: Database Administrator
Company: Limestone Digital
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Required skills:
— 5+ years working on database administration;
—3+ years on Postgres administration;
—3+ experience with cloud-based databases;
—Experience with code maintenance;
—Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in computer science or related;
—Excellent listening, verbal and written and presentation communication skills;
—Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment by learning quickly, applying new knowledge effectively, and still maintain a disciplined approach to software development;
—Ability to work both independently and with a team, and with remote development teams (international);
—Passion for quality and continuous improvement;
—Upper-Intermediate English level (written and spoken, you’ll communicate directly with the client).

**As a plus:**
—Experience with data warehousing;
—Experience with scripting languages like ruby
—Good multitasking and communication skills;
—Not complacent with the status quo;
—Passionate about innovation and discovery.

**Responsibilities:**
—Analyze data access patterns and ensure efficient SQL and optimal database design;
—Detect slow queries and optimize SQL queries;
—Setup and tune Autovacuum constraints;
—Analyze, setup, maintain and improve indexes;
—Write and maintain automated db maintenance scripts;
—Monitor Postgres performance, setup metrics, thresholds, and alarms to detect issues in DBS;
—Maintain proper backup and recovery strategies;
—Follow and recommend Postgres 3rd party tools and plugins;
—Monitor and plan for increasing load/capacity, prepare and plan additional resources;
—Assist development team to take full advantage of Postgres features;
—Maintain performance for DBs in both OLTP and OLAP use-cases;
—Help support move of OLTP data to a ’data warehouse’ or ’data lake’ type of environment;
—Triage, debug and diagnose production and development database issues;
—Support product deployment, configuration, and testing;
—Communicate pro-actively and listen carefully;
—Work independently;
—Commit to negotiated schedule.

**About the project:**

Our client is an international transport company with the key project of an enterprise platform for real-time visibility of transportation, yard operations and inventory orchestration throughout the supply chain using advanced cloud-software capabilities, IoT solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Limestone Digital assists in the development and further support of the yard management automation project.
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Project technology stack**
C++, Ruby, PostgreSQL