Sr Database Administrator

Our people are the core of our business. Our 1ACI team represents a globally diverse, passionate and dedicated group of thousands of technology professionals around the world who share a common commitment to making our customers successful by driving the future of payments. We are looking for **Sr DevOps Engineer **to work from New Zealand **or from our Sydney office and be part of a global team that’s involved in cutting-edge real-time payment platforms that is being used by global financial and e-Commerce corporations.**

Our platform is enabled to be a private / public cloud-based service to enable Digital Payments in a full DevOps Agile environment with working CI/CD model.

What makes our solution different from the rest of industry is the high system availability, real time (payment transactions processing), high responsiveness, security compliant with full tests code coverage and a high degree of automation.

ACI is currently seeking a Sr Database Administrator Position. This position will work tightly with our DevOps team and SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) and maintain responsibility for database administration duties/tasks/projects involving PostgreSQL. This position directly has impact on the architecture, engineering, and operations to keep the mission critical systems and infrastructure running 24/7.

**Responsibilities**:

- Install, monitor, and maintain bi-directional PostgreSQL clusters, implement monitoring and alerting, implement backup and recovery processes, provide system and PostgreSQL performance tuning and assist in business process integration with various data sources.
- Upgrading/Patching instances as well as tracking and remediating security vulnerabilities.
- Provide as needed on call coverage for production support and administration of PostgreSQL.
- Participate and actively contribute to the assessment of database related tasks for corporate and web-related environments.
- Work with DevOps team and SRE to define and document technical standards and develop the database architecture of the environment.
- Responsible for daily care and feeding of the PostgreSQL database environment in the cloud.
- Serve as escalation point for any defined database issues including security and performance.
- Assist in formalizing and updating database policies, procedures and technical standards and auditing/monitoring compliance with those standards.
- Stay abreast of current technologies, developments, security compliance requirements, standards and industry trends.
- Assess requirements, research, recommend, design, and implement necessary solutions/tools to meet project related requirements.

**Education and Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer related discipline, Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years' experience in database administration.
- Hands on experience in implementing, configuring, and managing tools for configuration control and management of databases for corporate environments.
- Experience managing PostgreSQL in cloud.
- Automation experience (please describe what tools/languages are used for automation)
- Experience working with IP networking; thorough understanding security related concepts and technologies.
- Experience using dev-ops tools like Ansible.

**Performance Skills**:

- Must have a passion for providing excellent customer support to all types of customers as well as impeccable verbal and written communication skills.
- Must possess organizational proficiencies to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision.
- Must be a team player and have the ability to interact with multiple levels of personnel within the organization.
- Must be highly motivated, self-starting, and committed to achieving results and have a strong sense of ownership and follow-through to resolution.
- Must have strong problem solving skills and be able to come up with creative and flexible solutions.

**Work Environment**:

- Standard work environment Majority time spent on PC (Phys. Req.)
- Some limited Travel required, may be domestic or international