Senior DBA

Senior DBA (Postgres)

• Great opportunity to join a global leader in mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Work in a fast-paced environment with lots of opportunity for exposure to both highly visible projects and cutting-edge technology
• Permanent, Perth based role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

The Automation Development team in Group Technical – Services and Delivery works across a broad range of unique mining technologies that include machine automation projects such as the Autonomous Drilling System, real-time data platforms and 3D visualisation systems.

About the role

In the role of Senior Database Administrator (Postgres) you will be joining the Digital Infrastructure and DevOps team responsible end to end systems and application support and management. From assisting developers through to release management and production support. The role shall report to the Principal Advisor – DevOps & Infrastructure, and shall undertake duties including:

• Managing and maintaining Postgres databases within our group
• Document and review support processes and procedures
• Performance management and tuning across all databases systems
• Assist development teams with query optimisation and code reviews
• Responsible for schema version control across release rollout
• Database capacity planning and management
• Maintain uptime and integrity of Postgres Replication

Desirable skills and experience

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Database: Postgres (preferably geospatial databases), MSSQL
• Postgres Replication
• Postgres Partitioning
• Linux administration
• Exposure to Azure/AWS
• Flyway schema management and Database migration
• DevOps/Config management Engineer (Puppet/Ansible)
• Experience with TimescaleDB, Mongo, CouchDb (not essential)
• Monitoring tools: Nagios, PGWatch, Grafana
• Version control (GIT)

About Rio Tinto 

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. 

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you will be workingThis role is based in Perth, Western Australia, out of our Central Park office, working Monday – Friday. We support and encourage flexible working arrangements.The team is highly collaborative and work in close partnership with Rio Tinto’s global R&D community, and external bodies such as research institutes, suppliers and industry partners.What We Offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive programme
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Every Voice MattersAt Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.