We are looking for a Senior/Lead Database Administrator to join our NRS Team!
About Team: The NRS point-of-sale (POS) solution consists of devices deployed at our customer’s locations that interact with cloud-based services. With over 30,000 customers across the US, NRS seeks a dedicated resource focused design, configuration, scalability, and performance tuning of the Postgres RDS instances that are core to our cloud infrastructure.
Primary location - Minsk, Belarus!
Key responsibilities:
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Design, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (self-hosted and RDS)
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Support multiple envs and teams
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Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve issues
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Optimize queries and database schema for performance and scalability
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Upgrade planning and execution
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Dbschema changes, db splits, migrations, improvements
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Collaborate with devs/qa/devops/data/others
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Reporting and analytics support
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Data archiving/migrations/import/export/etc
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Disaster recovery planning - backups, replication, failover strategies, plans
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Security
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Access controls
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Compliance
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Capacity planning
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Cost management
Requirements:
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Experience with PostgreSQL administration
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Experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, including parameter groups, snapshots, and monitoring
- Advanced knowledge of SQL for querying, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Proficiency in performance tuning, vacuuming strategies, indexing, and partitioning
- Experience with high availability, read replicas, and failover strategies
- Scripting experience for automation
- Experience with backup and disaster recovery strategies
- Experience with monitoring tools
- Familiarity with other database technologies
- Experience migrating from self-hosted to RDS or vice versa
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Analytical mindset and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, iterative environment
We are pleased to offer you:
- An exciting and challenging job with talented people around.
- Competitive salary and growth opportunities.
- Really good hardware.
- Remote work opportunity or hybrid in Minsk
- Sports activities reimbursement.
- Medical insurance.
- 26 vacation days & 5 fully covered sick days without sick leave required per year.
- Superb corporate English lessons.
A few words about us:
IDT Corporation is a global communications company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. We are industry leaders in prepaid communication and payment services and one of the largest international voice carriers.
We are listed on the NYSE, employ over 1800 people across 20 countries, and have over $1.5 billion in revenues.
About NRS:
National Retail Solutions (NRS), currently a wholly owned subsidiary of IDT Corporation, is revolutionizing the independent retail industry by providing them with cost-effective, state of the art point of sale systems and complementary services such as apps for store management and consumer ordering, web store front for the store, and loyalty programs allowing small retailers to more effectively compete with the larger store chains and online merchants.
We are deployed in well over 20 thousand stores across the US at this time.