Tuesday, August 23, 2011

[KITlist-Tech] DBA PowerReviews Social Media Solutions Co (San Francisco, CA)

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Database Administrator
PowerReviews- Social Media Solutions Co.
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PowerReviews is the leading provider of social commerce software-as-a-service solutions to global retailers and brands.
We are an innovative social media company committed to making software for consumers to rate products purchased on E-commerce websites.

The company´s unique structured data approach to collecting, organizing, and analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and customer engagement.

We've got the Power:

PowerReviews is live on over 4,700 websites - across 13 languages in 21 countries - including Staples, Drugstore.com, Room & Board, ESPN, Neutrogena, Quicksilver, and Jockey.
Recognized as the customer reviews Solution Leader in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, PowerReviews has received venture capital backing from Four Rivers Group, Woodside Fund, Menlo Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
PowerReviews has received two patents since 2009 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent No. 7,930,363) relating to the method in which it delivers user-generated product reviews to websites globally.


Database Administrator
We are looking for a Database Administrator to manage multiple development and production databases. This position requires regular on-site interaction with the engineering and operations teams in our San Francisco office. The DBA reports to the Database Architect and supports our Postgresql environment. However, don't worry if you don't have much experience with Postgresql. If other requirements are met, this position will be a great opportunity to acquire solid Postgresql experience.

Responsibilities

Release process - schema change management, prepare release-specific checklists and scripts
Availability - maximize uptime, implement and maintain proper safeguards for backup, replication, and recovery
Security - define and implement user privileges and access controls to data
Automation - develop scripts to automate routine database related operations, maintain systems configuration for DB systems using Puppet
Development Support - help engineers and business analysts adopt database best practices, review database change requests and provide optimization advice
Emergency response - Participate in oncall rotation


Requirements

1 to 3 years experience managing production relational databases in 24x7 environment
Experience with writing SQL queries and performance optimization
Familiarity with database best practices, principles of database replication, backup, scalability and high availability
Understanding of basic database fundamentals: multi-version control, concurrency, transactions, indexing, locking, caching
Understanding of Unix environment, and shell scripting experience
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice to Have

Experience with Postgresql is desired, but Oracle or MySQL experience will work, too
Experience in using one or more monitoring solutions (Zenoss, Nagios, Cacti, etc)
Experience in Ruby or other scripting language like Perl or Python.


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