Job description
We are looking for a Senior 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!
Responsibilities:
- Move large database to new AWS account
- Split database into acorn and regular ops.
- Further splitting by function, as needed, including choosing alternative dbs
- Performance evaluation of current db Review/coord with devs about errors/warnings in logs
- Continuing performance monitoring/tuning/optimization Improve existing queries
- Perform reviews of new queries
- Manage users/roles/permissions/access
- Create a load testing framework schema review/design/management/change management
Required Skills and Experience:
- Responsibility for a large AWS RDS Postgre SQL database.
- Expectation is for experience with tasks such as: advanced knowledge of SQL for querying, optimization, and troubleshooting new partitions/triggers/seq etc upgrade planning and execution monitoring and alerts capacity planning data archiving/migrations/import/export/etc database backup/recovery database documentation
- Reporting and analytics support security management
- Automate maintenance tasks (audit,fixes,reindexing,etc) disaster recovery planning
- Cost management
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Proficiency in languages like shell scripting for automating repetitive tasks problem-Solving and Troubleshooting including ability to diagnose and resolve database issues promptly and strong analytical skills to conduct root cause analysis and prevent recurring issues ability to clearly communicate database issues and updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficient in prioritizing tasks, managing multiple projects, and maintaining documentation. works well with cross-functional teams.
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.
