Position: Senior DBA / Cloud Migration Engineer
Company: EPAM Systems
Category: Data Engineer
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We're looking for experienced Senior DBA & Cloud Migration Engineer to join our team.

Client is running a global finance transformation project, replacing its legacy finance platform by Azure native services, Java microservices and SAP products. The Java microservices store their state Azure managed Postgres databases. The new finance platform is built using IaC, so all databases are provisioned using Terraform. Different engineering teams are ingesting into and consuming data from these Postgres DBs.

Role:
We are looking for Postgres consultant who can support our engineering teams in making best use of Postgres managed databases on Azure. Consult them in application development and performance optimization.
The specialist is also expected to review and own Postgres configuration parameters to support the requirements of the microservices.

Goals:
- Providing support to the engineering teams;
- Reacting to support requests (Incident Tickets);
Troubleshooting incidents;
- Proactive monitoring of Postgres DBs;
- Providing guidance on best usage of Postgres;
- Establish an operations concept for the Postgres infrastructure on Azure;
- Transfer standard operational tasks by providing runbooks to level 2 teams;
- Providing support to the infrastructure team;
- Support migration (Migration PostgreSQL 11 Single Server to PostgreSQL 14 Flexible Server V14);
- Review DR concept.

Skills:
- Having strong conceptual and practical knowledge of Postgres, understanding software development lifecycle.
- Hands on experience with PostgreSQL 11 or PostgreSQL 14 on Azure;
- 5 years of experience;
- Understanding of Kafka is a benefit;
- Strong communication skills.

We offer:
- Medical insurance package for you and your family;
- Stable income;
- Paid sick leave days;
- 100% remote work forever;
- Free licensed software;
- Possibility to work on your own device (BYOD);
- Stable workload;
- Relocation opportunities;
- Flexible engagement models;
- Free trainings for technical, soft, and leadership skills;
- Access to LinkedIn Learning platform;
- Language courses;
- Access to internal and external e-Libraries;
- Certification opportunities;
- Skill advisory service.