The Senior 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 and other tools in the PostgreSQL ecosystem with the customer’s enterprise infrastructure to create highly available and resilient solutions, while providing technical guidance and leadership both to customers and colleagues.

You'll be a leader in the following topic areas:

• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL replication in its different forms
• PostgreSQL configuration and performance tuning
• Security and Authentication, for example with Kerberos, Active Directory or LDAP
• High Availability, 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

What your impact will be:

• 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

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of professional experience developing and deploying complex solutions in business environments
• Ability to understand customer needs and translate them into technical requirements
• 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 and presentation skills, written and verbal
• Comfortable with domestic travel up to 20%

What will give you an edge:

• Strong knowledge of vector databases
• Hands on experience with leading public cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure)
• Ability to speak additional languages