Database Administrator – PostgreSQL

Accenture; Ballarat; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Ballarat is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join the Infrastructure Managed Services team. You will manage PostgreSQL environments, perform performance tuning, backups and recovery, and support cross‑platform workloads including SQL Server.

This hands‑on role requires strong Linux skills, the ability to troubleshoot complex issues, and collaboration with application and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of database administration experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL administration with replication and vacuuming.
• Solid Linux admin skills (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and shell scripting.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Always On is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and manage PostgreSQL environments.
• Monitor performance and resolve bottlenecks.
• Design backup and recovery strategies.
• Administer Linux systems supporting DB workloads.
• Provide Level 2/3 support for PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
• Collaborate with applications and infrastructure teams on design.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Linux

SQL Tuning

Replication

Backup/Recovery

Tools

Patroni

repmgr

pgPool

pgBackRest

Job description

Build your career with Accenture in Ballarat

At Accenture, you will work with talented people, leading technologies and global expertise to solve complex challenges for some of Australia’s largest organisations.

This is an opportunity to grow your technology career in Ballarat—combining meaningful enterprise work and access to Accenture’s global network with the lifestyle and community of a regional location. You will join a collaborative local team, expand your database expertise and help support reliable, secure and high-performing technology platforms.

The opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator with strong PostgreSQL and Linux expertise to join our Infrastructure Managed Services team.

You will help ensure critical database environments remain reliable, secure and optimised. Your work will span database administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability and cross-platform support, including Microsoft SQL Server.

This role would suit a hands-on database specialist who enjoys troubleshooting complex issues, improving performance and working collaboratively across application and infrastructure teams.

What you’ll do

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and administer PostgreSQL database environments.
• Monitor database performance and proactively resolve bottlenecks, slow queries and capacity issues.
• Design and manage PostgreSQL backup and recovery strategies aligned with agreed recovery objectives.
• Administer Linux systems supporting database workloads, including performance tuning, storage management and security hardening.
• Provide Level 2 and Level 3 support for PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server incidents.
• Manage database security, including user access, roles and auditing.
• Support Microsoft SQL Server environments across instance administration, patching and backup management.
• Contribute to database migration and consolidation projects.
• Maintain database documentation, configuration records, schemas and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams on database design and integration requirements.
• Contribute to disaster-recovery planning and testing.

What you’ll bring

• Approximately five to ten years of database administration experience.
• Strong hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience, including replication, vacuuming, query optimisation and extension management.
• Solid Linux administration capability across RHEL, CentOS or Ubuntu, including shell scripting and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration, including Always On, backups and SQL Server Agent jobs.
• Experience with PostgreSQL high-availability technologies such as Patroni, repmgr or pgPool.
• Strong SQL query-writing skills and experience analysing performance using EXPLAIN plans.
• Experience with PostgreSQL backup tools such as pgBackRest, pg_dump or Barman.
• Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring and database alerting tools.
• Experience working within an ITIL-based service management environment.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement based in Ballarat.

Bonus points if you have

• PostgreSQL Professional or Microsoft SQL Server certification.
• Experience with pgBadger, Nagios or Prometheus.
• Advanced PostgreSQL configuration and performance-tuning experience.
• Automation experience using shell scripting or other relevant technologies.

Why Accenture?

At Accenture, you will be supported to learn, grow and build a career that reflects your strengths and ambitions. You will have access to industry-leading learning, diverse career pathways and a global network of technology specialists—all while contributing to meaningful work from our Ballarat location.

You will join an inclusive and collaborative culture where different perspectives are valued and people are encouraged to bring their best ideas to the table.

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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