Lead Software Engineer
Company: Horizontal Talent
Location: Schaumburg
Posted on: June 13, 2022
Job Description:
Description:
- We are seeking qualified Database Engineer / Administrator is
responsible for independently analyzing database performance
characteristics and collaboratively changing the database design to
improve performance and resource utilization.
Duties and responsibilities
- Administers, manages, and monitors all systems, including
databases, in development, test, stage and production
environments.
- Design and implementation of Azure Postgres databases,
high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster
recovery solutions.
- Data Partitioning, Purging and Archiving solutions in the Azure
PostgreSQL ecosystem.
- Azure CLI and/or PowerShell.
- Writing PostgresSQL, including stored procedures, functions,
views, and triggers.
- Query analysis and troubleshooting Leadership
responsibilities.
- Provide technical leadership through example, develop
innovation, strategies, processes, and best practices.
- Monitor database performance, implement changes, and apply new
patches and versions when required.
- Manage PostgreSQL databases through multiple product lifecycle
environments, from development to mission-critical production
systems.
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes,
including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure
high levels of performance, availability, and security.
- Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and
implementation support efforts meet integration and performance
expectations.
- Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time,
providing problem resolution end-to-end
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment
activities after hours.
- Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical
mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team
members.
- Own and manage uptime and performance SLAs.
- Ability to work well with team globally specifically in
India.
- Work with Development and QA team, guide developers on
following best coding practices to write optimal & efficient
code.
Experience:
- 5+ years in database tuning and project support, database
server upgrades and migrations, writing and troubleshooting
database stored procedures.
- In-depth knowledge of security best practices including
database encryption, column level encryption, SSL/TLS connection
encryption, and service specific account permissions.
- Experience with Azure databases specifically Azure
Postgres.
- Good understanding of DevOps and the role of database
administration teams in DevOps.
- Experience performing database deployments (CI/CD)
- Advanced knowledge of performance tuning and administration,
query analysis, performance monitoring and tuning, and maintenance
routines
- Experience with data warehouse and reporting technologies
(specifically Power Bi) a plus.
- Background in automating processes
- Experience with creating and maintaining database
infrastructure.
- Experience interacting with customers on an as needed
basis.
Education:
- Minimum of an undergraduate degree in Business, Engineering, or
other related field; or a combination of commensurate experience
and education.
Projects the candidate will be working on:
- Curo is chartered with transforming care delivery by focusing
on the member and leveraging deep clinical expertise, breakthrough
technology, and advanced analytics and AI/ML to deliver the right
insights to the right clinician at the right time with a focus on
leveraging and productizing internal technologies, solutions and
components across the enterprise to provide a market-leading
solution for Utilization Management, Prior Authorization, Case &
Disease Management and Concurrent Review.
Ideal Background:
- Experience as a Postgres DBA in a cloud environment
- Performance Tuning experience with Postgres in a cloud
environment
- Experience in the healthcare industry
- Good communication skills.
Experience:
- Good communication skills, Good understanding of how
applications and databases interact and need to be tuned. Good
understanding of how the data and the business interact
Top Requirements:
- Experience as a Postgres DBA in a cloud environment 5+
years
- Performance Tuning experience with Postgres in a cloud
environment 5+ years
- Good communication skills
Team and Team size:
- The Database team consists of myself as manager, 1 Lead, 1
onshore powerbi developer, 1 offshore database
developer/powerbi.
- We will be adding one more offshore database
developer.
- The DevOps Team also contains 2 cloud engineers.
- We have 3 developer Agile teams onshore and 4 offshore and are
quickly expanding.
Keywords: Horizontal Talent, Schaumburg , Lead Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Schaumburg, Illinois
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