Support the data center migration of four Vertica Clusters.
Requirements
- Proven experience administering Vertica in virtualized and physical environments running on RHEL 6.x across various storage solutions including SAN, internal drives and SSD storage.
- Proven experience designing Vertica to run a 24 x 7 enterprise multi-data center environment, including installation, configuration, backup, recovery and node failures
- Proven experience planning and executing Vertica version upgrades
- Proven experience with data center migrations
- Proven Linux/UNIX experience, including shell scripting
Responsibilities
- Install and configure Vertica in multiple 12+ node environments running on RHEL 6.x supporting 15 TB + databases
- Execute Vertica version upgrades from 5 to 6
- Query and Partition performance tuning
- Proactively monitor server and database process health to ensure availability and performance
- Create shell scripts
- Produce technical documentation, status reports and ensure issues are escalated in a timely manner
- Mentor and guide team members
Other
- 5+ years of experience
- excellent organization and communication skills
- able to own communications with multiple stake holders including Product, IT and Data Center support staff.
- Resourceful, responsible, flexible, able to work unsupervised and dedicated to quality of work
- Some evening or weekend work required during migration, migration testing or production down issues.
