Site Reliability Engineer, PostgreSQL
NetApp
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Bangalore • India
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About the role
- Maintain the security, performance, and availability of large-scale, cloud-hosted open-source clusters.
- Collaborate closely with global customers across industries such as gaming, banking, and logistics.
- Manage the full application lifecycle—from infrastructure provisioning to application deployment.
Requirements
- 4-8 years of PostgreSQL administration experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals: configuration tuning, WAL, autovacuum, MVCC, indexing, and partitioning.
- Hands-on experience with replication (streaming, logical, cascading), failover, and disaster recovery.
- Expertise in pgBackRest, including PITR and troubleshooting restore issues.
- Experience managing critical incidents, database migrations, and architecture reviews.
- Performance tuning using query logs, system metrics, diagnostic views, and execution plans.
- Experience with Patroni or similar HA solutions, including DCS and failover management.
- Strong Linux command-line skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication.
- ITIL-based support experience preferred.
- Solid fundamentals in OS, memory management, and networking.
- Team-oriented, process-driven, and proactive.
- Programming in Python or Java; Git experience a plus.
- Exposure to AWS, Docker, and Ansible is an advantage.
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Hard Skills & Tools
PostgreSQL administrationconfiguration tuningWALautovacuumMVCCindexingpartitioningreplicationperformance tuningprogramming in Python
Soft Skills
excellent written communicationexcellent verbal communicationteam-orientedprocess-drivenproactive
Certifications
ITIL-based support experience