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Senior DevOps Engineer - DBA/Sys Admin (Remote)

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Date: May 24, 2023

Location(s): North Palm Beach, FL, US, 33408

Company: NextEra Energy

NextEra Energy Resources is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, and a world leader in battery storage. We provide energy-related products and services that grow our economy, protect the environment, support our communities and help customers meet their energy needs. We are leading the decarbonization of the U.S. economy with our goal to reach Real Zero carbon emissions from our operations by 2045 while improving customer affordability and reliability. Are you interested in creating a cleaner environment for future generations? Join our world-class, innovative team today.

 

Position Specific Description

Senior DevOps Engineer – DBA/Sys Admin

United States - Remote

 

ABOUT EVERBRIGHT

EverBright is a clean energy company on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of our planet. EverBright offers a full suite of financing and technology products that make clean energy accessible to anyone with an energy bill. We are a leading provider of financing for residential solar, storage, and energy efficiency products, fueling our rapid growth through innovative software solutions. We understand that the energy systems of tomorrow will be clean, distributed, and powered by advanced technology

 

 

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As a Database Administrator, you will play a critical tole to build and maintain Database clusters in multiple environments. You'll configure, monitor and tune performance of PostgreSQL databases.

 

You will be leading in planning backup and recovery of database information and manage data replication.

 

You will be required to participate in an on-call schedule to respond to critical system alerts and perform System Administrator duties as needed.

 

In addition to technical expertise, you should have strong communication skills to effectively work with a cross functional team. You should be comfortable working in an agile development environment and have experience with agile methodologies.

 

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

· Work very closely with the EverBright engineering team to build and maintain Databases

· Support new hire onboarding IT needs

· Participate in on-call schedule to monitor and respond to critical system alerts

· Automate backup and recovery of Databases

· Work with the Engineering team to maintain and update seed database for lower environments

· Manage IP traffic using security groups. Configure the parameter group

· Perform Maintenance and management activities

· Plann backup and recovery strategies

· Perform User management

· Monitor the databases. Plan and perform Disaster recovery

· Automate and Maintain Database Lifecycle tools

· Peer review code and adhere to company coding standards and best practices

· Perform system admin tasks - ssh, applying patches, installing packages, restart services, health monitoring

· Perform other job related duties. Train and guide other team members and maintain process/knowledge documentation

 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

· 5+ years of experience as a Postgres DBA, AWS cloud production support environment, backup recovery, replication, high availability, designing and managing schema, monitoring diagnosing and optimizing database performance

· Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery and replication solutions and best practices

· Demonstrated experience implementing deploying Postgres database servers

· Expertise in analyzing query performance using query plans and tuning query performance

· Postgres database performance tuning and script automaton to streamline the process.

· Knowledge of AWS RDS, S3, IAM, RDS Proxy, DMS

· Advanced knowledge of Database Administration on PostgreSQL platforms operating within on premise & AWS installations.

· Advanced knowledge of Database operational monitoring & alerting for PostgreSQL.

· Advance knowledge of backups, restores and recovery models.

· Advance knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics

· Knowledge of Unix/Linux commands and networking

· Knowledge of monitoring tools like DataDog, New Relic, CloudWatch, etc.

· Experience with Kubernetes or Docker, and/or cloud deployment technologies is a plus

· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high growth environment

 

 

WHY EVERBRIGHT

Working at EverBright is challenging and rewarding. We hire excellent people and empower them to do excellent work. We are passionate about our mission and care deeply about building products that people love. At EverBright you can expect to grow professionally, make a positive impact, work hard, have fun, be respected, feel part of a community, and be proud of your work and career. EverBright also provides generous perks and benefits, including:

· Competitive Salary

· 401k match

· Medical, dental, vision, life, and legal insurance

· Access to multiple offices around the US (Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA, & Juno Beach, FL)

· EAP and mental health assistance

· Discount plans through Next Era Employee portal

· Health and wellbeing services

· Education assistance program

· Adoption assistance

· Work from home tech setup

Job Overview

This position is responsible for managing, monitoring and deploying a highly available, highly scalable production application. The individual will be responsible for one or more environments and/or systems and interface directly with the Development and Operations team on a daily basis for the maintenance, expansion, and documentation of these environments, providing assistance and review of proposed architectures, as needed. This role is responsible for vetting emerging technologies and guides the direction of the teams that support software development.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Drives the automation and continuous improvement of the software delivery process
  • Manages the continuous integration services maintenance and configuration, ensuring the build environment is meeting the needs of the software developers
  • Leads the maintenance and creation of automatic deployment of software builds to the test and production environments, enabling the operations team to easily and consistently deploy new software products
  • Monitors system development and maintenance and ensures that staff at all technical levels are informed of the health of our systems
  • Evaluates Operation teams processes and automates repetitive and temporary solutions
  • Improves the product environment and practices used by the software developers
  • Sets up back-up mechanisms for production environments and test disaster recovery mechanisms
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • High School Grad / GED
  • Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
  • Experience: 4+ years

Preferred Qualifications

  • None

 

Employee Group:  Exempt
Employee Type:  Full Time
Job Category:  Information Technology
Organization:  NextEra Project Mgmt 
Relocation Provided:  Yes, if applicable

 

Where permitted by applicable law, NextEra Energy requires all employees and new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on or before the first day of employment.

 

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

 

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.

 

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

 

NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.

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