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The Opportunity

Our SaaS Data team, a group within SaaS Engineering is responsible for collecting, centralizing, cleansing, curating, processing, modeling the data from diverse data sources to power internal and external applications, build analytics and reporting needs of various business units.
The team has built highly available infrastructure to acquire data from varieties of business system, accumulate and operate on Enterprise data. Our infrastructure consists of on-prem and cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS RDS and MySQL).
Your role:
The role requires administration of a highly available Database systems (Postgres), interact with business users across the company to support their Enterprise data needs. DB administrator will work with ETL team for data ingestion and data quality. This is a mission critical role to support business applications that depend on Enterprise data.

• Establish policies and procedures pertaining to data management, security, access control policies, maintenance, and utilization.
• Work with data-warehousing and Business Intelligence tools
• Audit for data integrity and consistency across systems
• Define and implement database schema and configurations working with our development teams
• Responsible for capacity planning and recommending paths to account for application growth that are in line with industry best practices
• Verifying data integrity
• Create and maintain documentation of procedures, schemas, and guides for troubleshooting database systems.
• Responsible for implementing, managing, and tuning high availability 24x7 PostgreSQL data base.
• Perform review of schema, stored procedures, and other changes to the database DDL
• Develop, manage, and test database backup & recovery strategies,
• Perform database installations, configurations, upgrades, and migrations
• Proactively monitor and tune for performance
• Consult with development and architecture teams to help meet continued application growth
• Research, evaluate and propose solutions to future-proof our Database infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring

• Working knowledge in Linux OS, Bash scripting and Python is expected.
• 8+ years of experience as a DBA on designing, building, configuring, and maintaining PostgreSQL databases on Linux.
• Expert knowledge of PL/PostgreSQL, triggers, materialized views and stored procedure development and optimization in PostgreSQL
• Desired Skills:
• Ability to communicate effectively with others, both in oral and written communication
• Significant practical hands-on experience with database administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning and high-availability solutions.
• Experience with database replication, hot stand-by, clustering, and table partitioning
• In-depth understanding of relational and dimensional database theory and concepts.
• Detailed understanding of Postgres database server architecture, concepts, features, and high-availability technologies.

• Experience with PostgreSQL tools for backup with pgBackrest.
• Experience in public cloud technologies like AWS.
• Working knowledge with NoSQL DBs is value added.
• Experience with PostgreSQL hot stand-by using Patroni.

About your team:
Tauseef: Hiring Manager ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tau-ahmad/ )

• Prior to Nutanix I have worked in AT&T, Charles Schwab, eBay and PayPal.
• Our team owns end to end data processes with set of tools for ETL, Database and Tableau. We are looking for a DBA who will own our on-prem data warehouse in Postgres.
• I joined Nutanix in 2019 and has held several positions with increasing responsibilities: currently Senior Manager, Data Platform.
• During my tenure at Nutanix, I am fortunate to work with talented and experienced IT professionals and have served critical business processes.

What the team says:

• The work we do in this team is central to data driven decisions across

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $88,800 and $177,600/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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