Perengo is seeking a senior Postgres/RDS and Redshift administrator with excellent technical understanding of these domains, at least several years of experience are required. The job is a remote contract position working on several large database systems.

Personality:

• Knows and loves the startup world – quick thinking and acting with minimal/no supervision
• Able to build enterprise grade architectures off of minimal and changing requirements
• Self driven, independent, creative and eager to learn new skills
• Aren’t happy with good, and build to great

Responsibilities

**Responsibilities:** 

• Database administration, tuning, management and security.
• Providing technical support for all database environments.
• Development and organization of all databases.
• Assessment and implementation of new technologies for the database layer.
• Providing long-term perspective on the relationship of the selected database technology to business opportunities.
• Set up, configure maintain and enhance proper infrastructure to support a large scale data analytics environment.
• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of every decision

Requirements

Technical Requirements:

• Excellent and proven knowledge of Postgres on Amazon RDS
• Excellent and proven knowledge of Amazon Redshift
• Excellent and proven knowledge of SQL
• EXPLAIN ANALYZE is one of your most used SQL commands
• Good knowledge of the following technologies is a bonus: — Redash — Python — Shell scripting — Docker
• Proficiency in Git, JIRA and Teamcity are a plus
• 4+ years in a production environment a plus