America Networks is a leading sensor and networking solutions partner for companies in any Industrial, Manufacturing, and Waste management space.
We design and manufacture sensors for storage tanks, water metering, energy metering, gas monitoring, and asset management.

Our founders are hardcore telecommunications engineers with combined 200 + years of experience in designing, optimizing and performance engineering; for several mid – large wireless carriers internationally - that saw a need to provide low power, cost efficient sensors to collect data, create alerts, and predict needed actions. We have combined these sensors with low power, wide area (LPWA) networking technologies to provide clients various options to decrease re-occurring costs associated with operating an IoT network of sensors and connected devices.

We specialize in design, deployment, optimization, and support of these Networks. Whether an off-the-shelf or custom solution is needed, we’ll create a solution and push the data on the best cloud platform to fit your needs, including your own.

DescriptionResponsibilities 
Planning, building, implementing, and administering Python scripts to test and deploy Nosql clusters building scripts to validate database performance 
Ensuring optimal database performance through exhaustive pro-active testing and ongoing real-time monitoring 
Troubleshooting issues to resolution 
Testing database security and enterprise policy guidelines according to established best practices 
Monitor and maintain the backups for database recoverability for all production databases 
Work with responsible Engineer/vendor resources to implement fixes for identified database issues within agreed upon Service Level Agreements 

Work Experience 
NoSql DBA with 3-5 years of experience in any of the following NoSql databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis) 
At least 2 years of DBA experience in an enterprise environment supporting all aspects of databases with emphasis on 2-tiered and 3-tiered architecture 
Strong experience in monitoring and tuning NoSql databases for optimum performance and assistance in capacity planning of database servers 
A minimum of 2 years of experience with the Linux operating system to be able to design high performance environment 
A minimum of 2 years of scripting (Python, Shell) experience 
Must possess excellent organization skills 
Must be able to prioritize and support multiple concurrent projects while consolidating inputs from multiple groups 
Able to work independently with accuracy and attention to detail 
Proficiency with MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint 
Commercial facing database/application support experience is desired 
RDBMS (MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, PostgreSQL) knowledge will be a plus (2 years) 

Qualifications 
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other related degree, relevant military experience 
Strong analytic, interpersonal and communication skills are required 
Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills 
Advance troubleshooting skills 
Proven problem solving abilities 
Must have the ability to function in a tight knit team environment 
Must be willing to work Change Control Windows on a very regular basis 
Must be willing to challenge yourself with regard to learning new databases, tools and technologies

Vivek Salvatore

vivek.salvatore(@)americanetworks.com

(973) 582-3458