Infrastructure Engineer III- Postgres Database Administrator

JOB DESCRIPTION

You belong to the top echelon of talent in your field. At one of the world's most iconic financial institutions, where infrastructure is of paramount importance, you can play a pivotal role.

As an Infrastructure Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms team, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing our Postgres databases. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with development teams, ensure data security, and stay updated with the latest PostgreSQL features and technologies. This role offers a chance to enhance your skills in database performance tuning, data migration, and integration, while contributing to the compliance and best practices of our database systems.

Job responsibilities

• Applies technical knowledge and problem-solving methodologies to projects of moderate scope, with a focus on improving the data and systems running at scale, and ensures end to end monitoring of applications
• Monitor database health and performance using tools and scripts. Troubleshoot and resolve database issues and errors.
• Analyze and optimize database performance. Identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve efficiency.
• Help to plan and execute data migration projects. Integrate Postgres databases with other systems and applications.
• Maintain documentation of database configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Work closely with development teams to support application requirements. Provide technical support and guidance to other team members.
  Ensure databases comply with industry standards and best practices. Stay updated with the latest PostgreSQL features and technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure disciplines concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Strong knowledge of one or more infrastructure disciplines such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, and performance assessments
• Experience working with PostgreSQL databases. Specifically, versions 16 & 17 with a keen interest being shown in version 18
• Experience in database design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Deep understanding of Postgres architecture and internals.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in SQL and PL/pgSQL programming.
• Strong database security management with knowledge of cyber security and controls

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with EnterpriseDB and its software is beneficial.
• Knowledge and experience with Python and understanding of modern engineering practices (SRE, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, continuous integration) would be beneficial

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.