What are the responsibilities and job description for the Postgres Solutions Architect position at EDB?
The world loves Postgres. If you work with developers or data scientists or anyone wrangling data, you'll probably see a sticker with the tusks and trunk of the Postgres elephant on the lid of a nearby laptop. EDB has a lot to do with that.
We've been major contributors to Postgres since the beginning, and we are proud to call thousands of boundary pushing customers our partners. Proud though we are, we are not resting on our laurels. There's plenty of work to do. The good news is that everything we do will impact Postgres, which is to say that it will impact the world. No pressure.
**This position is 100% remote for candidates residing in the US & Ontario or British Columbia Provinces only for Canada
The Solutions Architect is an integral part of the EDB's success with our customers. The Solutions Architect focuses on the integration of the EDB Postgres Platform with the customer's enterprise infrastructure to create highly available and resilient solutions, while providing technical guidance and leadership.
You'll be a leader in the following topic areas:
- Deep understanding of logical and streaming replication in PostgreSQL
- Security and Authentication, for example with Kerberos, Active Directory or LDAP
- Backup, Recovery and Storage Management in PostgreSQL
- Configuration Management Solutions, such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Public and private cloud solutions, such as Docker, Kubernetes or Openshift
- Big data solutions, such as Hadoop or Cassandra
Responsibilities
- Work with customers to help them realize the value of EDB's open source-based database platform
- Create, articulate, and document a suite of reference architectures that illustrate the breadth of the EDB Postgres Platform in OLTP and OLAP applications under multiple deployment models
- Support EDB's field teams (sales engineers and account executives) in difficult technical and architectural situations
- Work with EDB partners to create reference architectures that illustrate EDB Postgres in the context of the partner's capabilities
- Mentor junior team members and help them develop their technical skills
- Publish blogs, white papers and conference contributions
- Collaborate with Product Development and Product Management to further the capabilities of the EDB Postgres Platform
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to articulate the capabilities of the EDB Product Platform and create technical marketing collateral
Requirements
- 8 years of professional experience developing and deploying complex solutions in business environments
- Hands-on experience with leading deployment models (containers, virtual machines, hypervisors, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, etc.)
- Extensive hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
- Prior experience in a consulting or professional service environment
- Excellent communication skills, including public speaking
- Comfort with domestic travel (once it's safe) up to 20%
Plusses
- Hands on experience with leading public cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure)
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We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We'd love to hear from you and we want you to apply!
EDB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. EDB was built on a commitment to trust and respect each other and to embrace an array of people and ideas. These values remain at the center of our culture and are key to our company's integrity.
Our US benefits package is listed here - additional benefits packages available upon request