[pgsql-jobs] Posting Request for a Postgres Guru

Good evening:

 

I would appreciate your assistance in posting the follow job announcement to the PostgreSQL job list:

 

Postgres Guru Needed to Propel Fast-Growing Company to the Next Level!

Job Id:  WTHT-PSDBA

WhiteHat Security offers you an amazing opportunity to leverage your PostgreSQL expertise as our Database Administrator. A pivotal member of our team, you will work with a rapidly expanding multi-terabyte Postgres database, and guide us as we move from a centralized to decentralized environment. In this fast-paced, high-transaction setting, you will be constantly challenged as you tune and optimize our databases, ensuring that they operate at peak performance, and you will solve our most important storage issues including how best to distribute co-location facilities to guarantee optimal disaster recovery. The career-defining opportunity to work with a company truly at the bleeding edge of Postgres database management has presented itself. Go for it.

WhiteHat Security was founded to provide a comprehensive solution to the growing problem of website security and has quickly become a leading provider of website security services. WhiteHat develops comprehensive, easy-to-use, cost-effective solutions that enable companies to secure valuable customer data, meet federal compliance standards, and maintain customer confidence. Our team has worked at companies such as Symantec, Verisign, Tripwire, and Yahoo!, and WhiteHat executives are frequent speakers at security industry events such as ISSA, BlackHat, ISACA and more. We are growing at an impressive pace, and we are the right place for bright, creative, energetic people looking to get in on the ground floor of a fantastic opportunity. Find out more about WhiteHat and why we're so good at what we do: www.whitehatsec.com

As our Postgres Database Administrator based in our Santa Clara, California headquarters, your primary mission will be to manage and ensure the availability and performance of our database infrastructure. In this role, you will partner with our developers to come up with solutions to problems that often challenge the open-source environment, using your keen troubleshooting ability and knowledge of cutting-edge technology. Your solid command of PostgreSQL software will be put to the test as you analyze its interactions with both OS and hardware (you will work with Postgres 100% of the time). Your ability to extract and comprehend both I/O statistics (along with the underlying hardware characteristics) will be critical, as you will be counted on to recommend hardware upgrades and purchases. In addition, your comprehension of PostgreSQL’s own I/O stats will allow you to quickly zoom in on any query bottlenecks and architectural flaws. You can count on utilizing your rock-solid scripting experience using Perl, SQL (Python and C a big plus) to create complex scripts and tools for use in bridging any gaps in our database. Your comfort using PgFouine for performance profiling and query playback for QA environments, coupled with your ability to read query planner analysis and adjust query planner parameters to optimize/help planner decisions will really set you apart from the crowd. Finally, your understanding of general scalability issues of horizontal and vertical partitioning, as well as the issues involved with using database proxying, will allow you to dive right in and quickly get to work. With all that will be thrown your way, your sense of humor can't fail you, and we will make sure you get the support you need to assure your continued success in a role that is, admittedly, not for the faint of heart. But you're up for this challenge -- aren't you?

To apply for this position or refer someone you know, please use our online interview system managed by Accolo:

http://jobs.accolo.com/14199

Once you have completed the interview, your information will be forwarded to the hiring authority for decisions on next steps.

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Many thanks in advance for your kind consideration.

 

Best regards, Greg

 

 

 

Greg Vargas, PHR

Hiring Consultant

Accolo, Inc.
415.755.1252
gvargas@accolo.com
www.accolo.com

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