Database Engineer
Leidos
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 12 Extra Days Leave: Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
- Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers.
- When you grow, we grow. Be it through our exciting pipeline line of projects or by partnering with a People Leader who will guide, mentor and support you.
- Perform Level 2 and 3 platform support including management and administration of PostgresSQL database products on RedHat;
- Implement and test database upgrades;
- Design and implement data migration activities;
- Maintain database design and implementation documentation;
- Implement organisational objectives for database improvement and compliance with industry standards;
- Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
- Maintaining currency of the environment, where possible.
- Develops and configures tools to enable automation of database administration tasks.
- Source and analyse relevant subject matter documentation
- Contribute to IT Support process and policy development
- Providing input into policies, procedures, and SOP’s relating to maintenance and management of the operational database infrastructure. Interact with users and technical subject matter experts to ensure delivery is fit for purpose.
- Produce enterprise database designs and make recommendations for upgrades, designs and implementations will be advantage.
- 3+ years’ experience with on-prem PostgreSQL is required, with the following additional skills highly desirable:
- Postgres Replication
- Postgres Backup & Restore
- Clustering with Patroni
- Ansible experience
- Substantial professional experience working in a role within an engineering or project environment (preferably in a similar industry)
- Knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, interface protocols
- Substantial experience working in a large enterprise environments
- Strong individual contributor and team player in a professional environment
- Highly effective in managing multiple, concurrent activities, while understanding and managing priorities, dependencies and risk
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Good initiative in developing and improving systems and procedures
- Ability to independently develop and determine approaches to solutions in a practical and creative manner
- Strong conceptual, analytical and interpretive skills with high level of attention to details
- Strong focus on customer service
- Strong planning and organising skills
- Experience with Oracle and other database technologies are highly regarded.
- Experience with Ansible or infrastructure as code preferred.
- Experience with Liquibase highly regarded.
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